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Cardiac rehabilitation outcome after transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- Source :
- Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, Vol 91, Iss 2 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- PAGEPress Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Patients with severe aortic stenosis are increasingly treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) as a safer option to surgical aortic valve replacement (sAVR). Similar to many other heart diseases, after the specific therapeutic intervention patients are eligible for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) for the purpose of functional recovery. Thus far, CR after both sAVR and TAVI has been used to a limited extent, as shown by the availability of only two meta-analyses including 5 studies and 6 studies, respectively. Recent observational studies reported a significant improvement in functional indexes such as the Barthel scale and the 6-minute walk test (6MWT). We evaluated the outcome of CR in patients after TAVI treatment by measuring changes in the commonly used Barthel scale and 6MWT and adding the short physical performance battery (SPPB) scale as an index to assess lower extremity function. All indexes demonstrated a significant improvement, namely p
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 11220643 and 25325264
- Volume :
- 91
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.819ff6dcf2a64856b713348e9748ab99
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2021.1621