Children who underwent surgery for complex congenital heart defects present worse exercise capacity than their healthy peers. In adults and adolescents, heart failure is assessed on the basis of clinical symptoms using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) score, while in an infant Ross scale; heart failure can also be evaluated by other parameters. The purpose of this study was to compare the ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of supervised physical exercise on endothelial function, ergospirometric test variables and disease activity in SLE patients. METHODS We conducted a prospective study in which women with SLE who were available to perform physical exercise were allocated to the exercise group (EG) to practise supervised physical exercise for 1 h ...

INTRODUCTION The most widely used instrument to measure perceived exertion or exercise intensity is the Borg's Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale. Panic attacks are aversive experiences that may be triggered by bodily sensations such as palpitations, breathlessness or dizziness due to increasing autonomic distress, prior sensitisation to panic and fear conditioning. The consequence is cat...

A forty-one-year-old male with systolic heart failure, FC-III NYHA, clinical stage C due to dilated cardiomyopathy was submitted to an autologous transplant of the mononuclear fraction of bone marrow via coronary artery system through heart catheterism. Two months after the procedure, there was a decrease in plasma BNP and cardiac area reduction at the thorax X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonanc...

A 51 male, affected by Tetralogy of Fallot, underwent a left Blalock-Taussig anastomosis at the age of two years and an aorto - right pulmonary artery tube graft when 8 years old. Complete surgical correction was performed at age 21 with closure of the ventricular septal defect and a large patch over the right outflow tract, shunts were discontinued. Then it was well up to 51 years old when he ...

Abstract Introduction Prehabilitation aims to optimise functional capacity before surgery. We present the prehabilitation programme through a mobile app (PREHapp). Methods Patients with resectable colon cancer, ≥18 years old, without comorbidities and Android Smartphones are selected. The following is proposed PREHapp during 4 week pre- postoperative period. Depending on results of 6-minute tes...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of ventilatory parameters in maximal exercise performance in elite soccer players. METHODS From September 2009 to December 2012, 90 elite soccer players underwent evaluation of lung function test and ergospirometry by means of an incremental symptom-limited treadmill test. Results were analyzed according to i) maximal exercise velo...