Rehabilitating Cardiac Rehabilitation After Heart Transplantation

For many decades, cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and exercise training (ET;CRET) programs have been indicated in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) following major CHD events and revascularization procedures,1,2 but this therapy is greatly under-utilized.3 More recently, this therapy has become indicated for patients with chronic systolic heart failure (HF).4 Although especially in CHD, there may be benefits of other components of CR, by far the main component is the ET with improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), which likely explains most of the benefits of CR in CHD and HF.
Source: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation - Category: Transplant Surgery Authors: Source Type: research