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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
[Exercise training in cardiac patients: usefulness of the cardiopulmonary exercise test]
J Y Tabet1, P Meurin, A Ben Driss
1Service de cardiologie, centre de réadaptation cardiovasculaire de la Brie, 27, rue Sainte-Christine, 77174 Villeneuve-Saint-Denis, France. jtabet@free.fr
Abstract:
Exercise training is currently including in the treatment of coronary arterial disease patients, in patients with left ventricular dysfunction as well as in patients who underwent cardiac transplantation or cardiac surgery. However methods of prescribing exercise-training programs are difficult to determine and must be adapted for each patient Exercise test with gas analysis through the determination of anaerobic threshold may help to understand the physiopathological mechanism related to exercise limitation in these patients. Exercise test may help to precise exercise intensity during cardiac rehabilitation and may assess the benefits on exercise tolerance.
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