Aerobic Exercise Prescription in Adult Heart Transplant Recipients: A Review

Cardiovascular Therapeutics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 322-326

  Carvalho, Vitor Oliveira ^a   Bocchi, Edimar Alcides ^a   Guimarães, Guilherme Veiga ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aerobic exercise; Cardiac rehabilitation; Prescription; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; BORG SCALE; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CHRONOTROPISM; EXERCISE INTENSITY; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART GRAFT; HEART RATE; HEART RATE RESERVE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

ADULT; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78951473724     PISSN: 17555914     EISSN: 17555922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5922.2010.00175.x     Document Type: Review

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