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We analyzed the course of symptoms, including dyspnea, muscle effort and muscle pain and its relation with cardiac and pulmonary function parameters during an incremental exercise testing.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Twenty-four bilateral LTx recipients were evaluated in an observational cross-sectional study. Recruited patients underwent incremental cardio-pulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Arterial blood gases at rest and peak exercise were measured. Dyspnea, muscle effort and muscle pain were scored according to the Borg modified scale. Potential associations between the severity of symptoms and exercise testing parameters were analyzed using a Forest-Tree Machine Learning approach, which accomplishes for a ratio between number of observations and number of screened variables less than unit.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Dyspnea score was significantly associated with maximum power output (WR, watts), and minute ventilation (VE, L\/min) at peak exercise. In a controlled subgroup analysis, dyspnea score was a limiting symptom only in LTx recipients who reached the higher levels of WR (\u2265\u2009101 watts) and V<jats:sub>E<\/jats:sub>(\u2265\u200953 L\/min). Muscle effort score was significantly associated with breathing reserve as percent of maximal voluntary ventilation (BR%MVV). The lower the BR%MVV at peak exercise (&lt;\u200932) the higher the muscle effort perception. Muscle pain score was significantly associated with VO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>peak, arterial [HCO<jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub><jats:sup>\u2212<\/jats:sup>] at rest, and V<jats:sub>E<\/jats:sub>\/VCO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>slope. In a subgroup analysis, muscle pain was the limiting symptom in LTx recipients with a lower VO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>peak (&lt;\u200915\u00a0mL\/Kg\/min) and a higher V<jats:sub>E<\/jats:sub>\/VCO<jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>slope (\u2265\u200932).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>The majority of our LTx recipients reported peripheral limitation as the prevalent reason for exercise termination. Muscle pain at peak exercise was strictly associated with basal and exercise-induced metabolic altered pathways. The onset of dyspnea (breathing effort) was associated with the intensity of ventilatory response to meet metabolic demands for increasing WR. Our study suggests that only an accurate assessment of symptoms combined with cardio-pulmonary parameters allows a correct interpretation of exercise limitation and a tailored exercise prescription. 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