Velocity Transfer Function In The Right Pulmonary Artery And Impaired Cardiopulmonary Reserve In COPD

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Disclosure

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and Auburn University co‐own the patent rights to the VTF method (Gupta and Denney are coinventors). Gupta and Denney are stakeholders in Arcus‐Med, LLC, which has licensed exclusive patent rights to the VTF method from UAB and AU. Gupta and Denney were 10% owners of Arcus-Med, LCC, during the conduct of the study. In addition, Gupta and Denney have applied for a patent for the VTF method. Gupta is the Chief Medical Officer, and Denney is the Chief Scientific Officer of Arcus-Med, LLC. Wells reports grants from NIH/NHLBI (K08 HL123940) and NIH/NCATS (UL1TR003096), during the conduct of the study; grants, personal fees from GSK, personal fees from AstraZeneca, grants from Bayer, personal fees from BI, grants, personal fees from Mereo BioPharma, outside the submitted work. Dransfield reports grant from NIH/NHLBI (1K24HL140108), during the conduct of the study; grants from the American Lung Association, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans Affairs; personal fees from AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Mereo, PneumRx/BTG, Pulmonx and Quark; contracted clinical trials from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Boston Scientific, Gala, GlaxoSmithKline, Nuvaira, PneumRx/BTG, Pulmonx outside the submitted work. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.