[Prospectives for rehabilitation of subject with pacemakers (author's transl)]

The research performed in the last ten years has allowed important knowledge related to cardiocirculatory physiopathology concerning subjects treated with artificial pacemakers. Relying upon available data, one may today state with certainty that subjects treated with artificial pacemakers may afford an activity very often quite near to the physiologic one: it ensues that every attempt must be made (particularly referring to subjects under 50 years) in order to resume work adaptation correlated with similar efficient possibilities about peripheral circulation. A rehabilitation treatment, on a valid functional evaluation ground, is today possible and desirable, as is demonstrated by some patients who have again resumed their activity.