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Functional status in chronic heart failure is evaluated in general by subjective means, such as the New York Heart Association class, or by invasive techniques difficult to use routinely. The aim of this study was to evaluate noninvasively the contractile reserve in cases of heart failure as a means to define the functional status of the patients. Cardiac peak power, a new noninvasively obtained afterload-independent...