Exercise-based rehabilitation programmes for pulmonary hypertension

Exercise tolerance improves after pulmonary rehabilitation in pulmonary hypertension patients

Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is part of the recommended management plan of pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) and is important to better quality of life and exercise tolerance. This study aimed at determining effectiveness of PR on exercise capacity. Retrospective chart analysis was conducted on patients referred to our PHTN clinic for PR. Patients who had PHTN diagnosed on right heart catheterizat...

The history of exercise-based pulmonary rehabilitation

Ambulatory rehabilitation improves exercise capacity in patients with pulmonary hypertension.

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation is a central treatment modality for patients with chronic cardiopulmonary disease. Physical exertion for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has typically been discouraged. Inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation has been shown to improve exercise capacity in patients with PAH. The present study aimed to evaluate outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation for patie...

A review of ongoing trials in exercise based rehabilitation for pulmonary arterial hypertension

Exercise based rehabilitation for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a new treatment option for these patients to improve their functional capacity and quality of life. Despite the benefits seen in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation in various other conditions, it has been underutilized for the patients with PAH. A review of currently registered ongoing trials on exercise traini...

Response to pulmonary rehabilitation: toward personalised programmes?

Clinical practice should be based on the best scientific evidence, which does not always correspond to evidence-based medicine, involving guidelines, meta-analyses and protocols as a basis for clinical approach [1, 2]. There is no need of further randomised controlled trials (RCTs) for evidence that pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves daily symptoms, exercise performance and health status in...