VCU DOIM Medical Grand Rounds, March 28, 2024

Title: Crutchfield Lecture: Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in 2024

Speakers: Greg Lewis MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay Chair and Section Head, Heart Failure, Medical Director, Heart Transplantation, Director, CPET Laboratory

Learning Objectives:
1. Appreciate the incremental value of evaluating patients with suspected heart failure during exercise as opposed to only at rest.
2. Become familiar with expected normal values for hemodynamic responses to exercise.
3. Understand the prognostic value of invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing.
4. Review potential therapeutic strategies informed by exercise-based phenotyping.