Effects of Intense Physical Exercise In Rehabilitation of Patients Submitted to Heart Transplant

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseasesaccount for 17.3 milliondeaths per year and it is estimated that by 2030 this number will reach 23.6 million [1]. Despite the constant therapeutic advances of the last decades, heart failures still a reserve dprognosis, and heart transplantation is a widely accepted surgical alternative in cases where drug therapy is not sufficient to maintain the quality of life of patients with the form most severe disease [2]. Post-transplant cardiacre habilitation with physical exercise has proven benefits for thepatienttoreturntodailyactivities, improving fitness, and reduce some complications such as obesity, hypertension and depressio[3,4].