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  1. Schistosomiasis‐Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Brazil: A Call to Action for Enhanced Diagnostic Recognition—2025 Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute Infection in Pulmonary Vascular Disease Consortium Perspectives

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, April 2026, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  2. Gas exchange dynamics and responses to exercise in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, January 2026, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  3. Knowledge Gaps and Controversies on Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in the Assessment of Pulmonary Vascular Disease: An Official Statement of the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute Exercise and Right Ventricular Function Task Force

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, January 2026, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  4. A Tale of Two Organs: The Liver–Lung Axis in Pulmonary Disease

    Article • Comprehensive Physiology, November 2025, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  5. Chronic Dyspnea and Residual Pulmonary Vascular Sequelae After COVID‐19 Pulmonary Embolism: A Retrospective Analysis

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, October 2025, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  6. Oxygen pulse plateau as a qualitative marker for risk stratification in PAH

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, October 2025, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  7. Physiologic relevance of the transpulmonary metabolome in connective tissue disease–associated pulmonary vascular disease

    Article • JCI Insight, May 2025, American Society for Clinical Investigation

    Rudolf Oliveira

  8. Immune Profile of Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells in Patients With Schistosoma-induced Pulmonary Hypertension

    Article • American Review of Respiratory Disease, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  9. Orthostatic hypotension in precapillary pulmonary hypertension: prevalence, clinical profile and hemodynamic mechanisms

    Article • Physiology, May 2025, American Physiological Society

    Rudolf Oliveira

  10. Unveiling Orthostatic Hypotension and Its Hemodynamic Mechanisms in Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension

    Article • April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rudolf Oliveira

  11. Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in a Schistosomiasis‐Endemic Region of Brazil

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, April 2025, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  12. Clinical, Functional, and Hemodynamic Profile of Schistosomiasis-Associated Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Patients in Brazil: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Article • Infectious Disease Reports, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Rudolf Oliveira

  13. COVID-19 and Parasitic Co-Infection: A Hypothetical Link to Pulmonary Vascular Disease

    Article • Infectious Disease Reports, February 2025, MDPI AG

    Rudolf Oliveira

  14. Skeletal Muscle Pathology in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Its Contribution to Exercise Intolerance

    Article • Journal of the American Heart Association, February 2025, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Rudolf Oliveira

  15. Early Use of Liraglutide for the Treatment of Acute COVID-19 Infection: An Open-Label Single-Center Phase II Safety Study with Biomarker Profiling

    Article • Infectious Disease Reports, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Rudolf Oliveira

  16. COVID-19 and Parasitic Coinfection: A Hypothetical Link to Pulmonary Vascular Disease

    Article • November 2024, MDPI AG

    Rudolf Oliveira

  17. Prognostic relevance of Exercise Pulmonary Hypertension: Results of the multi-center PEX-NET Clinical Research Collaboration

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, November 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Horst Olschewski, Rudolf Oliveira

  18. Infection and pulmonary vascular diseases consortium: United against a global health challenge

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, October 2024, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  19. The role of the exercise physiology laboratory in disease management: pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, September 2024, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia

    Rudolf Oliveira

  20. Cardiopulmonary exercise test 3 to 12 months after COVID-19 hospitalization

    Article • September 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  21. Residual lung abnormalities after 12 months of COVID19 hospitalization: A brazilian multicenter study

    Article • September 2024, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  22. Dyspnea Investigation in Behçet’s Disease: The Role of Advanced Diagnostic Methods to Elucidate Dyspnea in Systemic Diseases

    Article • Annals of the American Thoracic Society, June 2024, American Thoracic Society

    Rudolf Oliveira

  23. The role of the pulmonary function laboratory to assist in disease management: pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, April 2024, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia

    Rudolf Oliveira

  24. CD147 Plasma Levels in Hospitalised Patients with Covid-19 Pneumonia Predict Illness Severity and In-Hospital Mortality

    Article • Stem Cell Reviews and Reports, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rudolf Oliveira

  25. Pulmonary hypertension outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, October 2023, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia

    Rudolf Oliveira

  26. Is pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with schistosomiasis distinct from pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with portal hypertension?

    Article • JHLT Open, October 2023, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  27. Exercise Pathophysiology in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Postacute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2

    Article • CHEST Journal, September 2023, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  28. Exercise intolerance in post-coronavirus disease 2019 survivors after hospitalisation

    Article • ERJ Open Research, March 2023, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Julio Pacheco Carlstron, Rudolf Oliveira

  29. Cardiopulmonary disease as sequelae of long-term COVID-19: Current perspectives and challenges

    Article • Frontiers in Medicine, November 2022, Frontiers

    Rudolf Oliveira

  30. Exercise metabolomics in pulmonary arterial hypertension: Where pulmonary vascular metabolism meets exercise physiology

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, September 2022, Frontiers

    Rudolf Oliveira

  31. Baseline characteristics of patients included into the ERS Clinical Research Collaboration: “Pulmonary Hemodynamics during Exercise - Research Network” (PEX-NET) registry

    Article • September 2022, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  32. Mechanisms of exercise intolerance after COVID-19: new perspectives beyond physical deconditioning

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, October 2021, Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia

    Rudolf Oliveira

  33. Insights From Invasive Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing of Patients With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

    Article • CHEST Journal, August 2021, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  34. Sex-Related Differences in Dynamic Right Ventricular-Pulmonary Vascular Coupling in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Article • CHEST Journal, June 2021, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  35. Impact of right ventricular work and pulmonary arterial compliance on peak exercise oxygen uptake in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • International Journal of Cardiology, May 2021, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  36. Arterial vascular volume changes with haemodynamics in schistosomiasis-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, January 2021, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  37. Schistosomiasis Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, December 2020, Frontiers

    Rudolf Oliveira

  38. Clinical utility of ventilatory and gas exchange evaluation during low‐intensity exercise for risk stratification and prognostication in pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • Respirology, October 2020, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  39. Systemic vascular distensibility relates to exercise capacity in connective tissue disease

    Article • Rheumatology, October 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  40. Dynamic right ventricular function response to incremental exercise in pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, July 2020, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  41. Fick principle and exercise pulmonary hemodynamic determinants of the six‐minute walk distance in pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, July 2020, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  42. Pulmonary Vascular and Right Ventricular Burden During Exercise in Interstitial Lung Disease

    Article • CHEST Journal, July 2020, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  43. Ventilatory and Gas Exchange Responses During Freewheeling Exercise in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    Article • May 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  44. Incremental step test in patients with pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, January 2020, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  45. EXPRESS: Prognostic value of six-minute walk distance at a South American pulmonary hypertension referral center

    Article • October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Rudolf Oliveira

  46. Unexplained exertional intolerance associated with impaired systemic oxygen extraction

    Article • European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rudolf Oliveira

  47. Dynamic right ventricular–pulmonary arterial uncoupling during maximum incremental exercise in exercise pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Rudolf Oliveira

  48. Pulmonary Vascular Distensibility and Early Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Hypertension

    Article • CHEST Journal, May 2019, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  49. Right Ventricular-Arterial Uncoupling During Exercise in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Article • CHEST Journal, May 2019, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  50. Tomographic features associated with excessive ventilatory responses during exercise in chronic pulmonary thromboembolic hypertension

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  51. Clinical value of an abnormal increase of O2 pulse during early recovery from maximal exercise in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  52. Dynamic right ventricular-pulmonary arterial (RV-PA) uncoupling during incremental exercise in HFpEF

    Article • September 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  53. Right ventriculo–arterial uncoupling and impaired contractile reserve in obese patients with unexplained exercise intolerance

    Article • European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rudolf Oliveira

  54. Pulmonary haemodynamics and mortality in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, April 2018, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  55. Pulmonary Vascular Resistance During Exercise Predicts Long-Term Outcomes in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

    Article • Journal of Cardiac Failure, March 2018, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  56. Network Analysis to Risk Stratify Patients With Exercise IntoleranceNovelty and Significance

    Article • Circulation Research, February 2018, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Rudolf Oliveira, Horst Olschewski

  57. Impaired systemic oxygen extraction in treated exercise pulmonary hypertension: a new engine in an old car?

    Article • January 2018, SAGE Publications

    David Systrom, Rudolf Oliveira

  58. Inhaled Treprostinil in Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Lung Disease

    Article • Lung, December 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Rudolf Oliveira

  59. Short and long-term effects of pulmonary endarterectomy on ventilatory responses and exercise capacity of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    Article • September 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  60. Prognostic impact of exercise pulmonary hypertension

    Article • September 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  61. Functional impact of exercise pulmonary hypertension in patients with borderline pulmonary arterial pressure

    Article • September 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  62. Hemodynamic and metabolic characteristics associated with development of a right ventricular outflow tract pressure gradient during upright exercise

    Article • PLOS One, June 2017, PLOS

    Rudolf Oliveira

  63. Functional impact of exercise pulmonary hypertension in patients with borderline resting pulmonary arterial pressure

    Article • Pulmonary Circulation, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Rudolf Oliveira, David Systrom

  64. Hot topics from the Assemblies

    Article • Breathe, June 2017, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  65. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing in the evaluation of unexplained dyspnea: Insights from a multidisciplinary dyspnea center

    Article • European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, May 2017, SAGE Publications

    Rudolf Oliveira

  66. Development of a Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Gradient During Upright Exercise

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  67. Clinical usefulness of end-tidal CO 2 profiles during incremental exercise in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Respiratory Medicine, November 2016, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  68. Prognostic role of excessive exercise ventilation in non-operable patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

    Article • September 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  69. Pulmonary haemodynamics during recovery from maximum incremental cycling exercise

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, April 2016, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    David Systrom, Rudolf Oliveira

  70. PHYSIOLOGIC DYNAMIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION DURING EXERCISE: CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR EXERCISE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY TO IDENTIFY ABNORMAL PULMONARY VASCULAR RESPONSE

    Article • Journal of the American College of Cardiology, April 2016, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  71. Intrapulmonary vascular dilatations are common in portopulmonary hypertension and may be associated with decreased survival

    Article • Liver Transplantation, March 2016, Wiley

    Rudolf Oliveira

  72. Age-related upper limits of normal for maximum upright exercise pulmonary haemodynamics

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, December 2015, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    David Systrom, Rudolf Oliveira

  73. Central hemodynamic patterns during recovery from peak exercise

    Article • September 2015, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  74. High-dose spironolactone changes renin and aldosterone levels in acutely decompensated heart failure

    Article • Cor et Vasa, December 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Joao Pedro Ferreira, Rudolf Oliveira

  75. A haemodynamic study of pulmonary hypertension in chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis

    Article • European Respiratory Journal, April 2014, European Respiratory Society (ERS)

    Rudolf Oliveira

  76. Erratum

    Article • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, April 2014, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  77. Usefulness of pulmonary capillary wedge pressure as a correlate of left ventricular filling pressures in pulmonary arterial hypertension

    Article • The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, February 2014, Elsevier

    Rudolf Oliveira

  78. Destaques das diretrizes de doenças pulmonares intersticiais da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisiologia

    Article • Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, June 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Rudolf Oliveira, Prof Dr Carlos R R Carvalho