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Effectiveness and Approach of Rehabilitation in Patients With Acute Heart Failure: A Review

  • Kensuke Ueno (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Hidehiro Kaneko (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Hidetaka Itoh (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Norifumi Takeda (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Hiroyuki Morita (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Katsuhito Fujiu (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo) ;
  • Kentaro Kamiya (Department of Rehabilitation, School of Allied Health Sciences, Kitasato University) ;
  • Issei Komuro (Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo)
  • Received : 2022.06.24
  • Accepted : 2022.06.30
  • Published : 2022.08.01

Abstract

Acute heart failure is associated with high mortality and frequent rehospitalization, resulting in enormous healthcare costs and declining physical function, activities of daily living, and quality of life. Cardiac rehabilitation has been recommended as one of the non-pharmacologic treatments for patients with heart failure. However, much of the evidence for cardiac rehabilitation interventions reported to date has been limited to chronic heart failure. In recent years, the effectiveness of rehabilitation intervention in patients with acute heart failure has been reported, led by the Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients (REHAB-HF) trial. This review overviews the recent evidence of rehabilitation in patients with acute heart failure.

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