Paediatric Respiratory Reviews
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 99-104, September 2009

Exercise Testing in Children with Lung Diseases

  • Oon Hoe Teoh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney
    • ,
  • Daniel Trachsel

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Intensive Care and Pulmonology, University Children's Hospital Basel, Postal Box, 4005 Basel, Switzerland
    • Tel.: +41 61 685 6565; Fax: +41 61 685 5004.
    • ,
  • Meir Mei-Zahav

      Affiliations

    • Pulmonary Institute, Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Petach Tikwa, Israel
    • Tel.: +972 3 9253654; Fax: +972 3 9253308.
    • ,
  • Hiran Selvadurai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Respiratory Medicine, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney
    • Tel.: +61 2 9845 3395; Fax: +61 2 98453396.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 2 9845 3395; Fax: +61 2 98453396.

Summary 

Exercise is an important aspect of health and development in children. By placing the pulmonary system under stress, exercise testing may reveal subtle dynamic abnormalities that are not apparent on conventional static pulmonary function tests. Furthermore, exercise testing assesses the functional impact of respiratory disease on children. Exercise testing has been used in children with a variety of respiratory diseases such as exercise induced bronchoconstriction, asthma, cystic fibrosis and bronchopulmonary dysplasia to assess the severity of disease as well as response to various interventions. Furthermore, there is good evidence that exercise testing is a useful tool to help determine prognosis in patients with cystic fibrosis. In addition to the clinical utility, exercise testing is also becoming an increasingly important outcome measure in research studies.

Keywords: Cardiopulmonary exercise test, exercise test, field test, child, adolescent, paediatric, pulmonary disease, lung disease, asthma, exercise induced asthma, exercise induced bronchoconstriction, cystic fibrosis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, chronic lung disease

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PII: S1526-0542(09)00045-1

doi:10.1016/j.prrv.2009.06.004

Paediatric Respiratory Reviews
Volume 10, Issue 3 , Pages 99-104, September 2009

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