Rehabilitation program in patients with moderate-to-severe intermittent claudication: Immediate results and one year follow-up;Riabilitazione del paziente arteriopatico allo stadio IIB: Risultati immediati e follow-up a un anno

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease - Cardiac Series

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 110-114

  Rossini, Duccio ^a   Bulckaen, Massimo ^a   Di Marco, Stefano ^a   Giovannetti, Roberto ^a   Giuntoli, Franco ^a   Iacopetti, Luciana ^a   Vergoni, William ^a  

^a UO Cardiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Exercise; Peripheral vessels; Propionil L carnitine; Prostaglandin E1; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

PROPIONYLCARNITINE; PROSTAVASIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAINING; TREADMILL;

EID: 34548327216     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/monaldi.2007.460     Document Type: Article

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