Cardiac rehabilitation program improves exercise capacity in heart transplantation recipients regardless of marginal don
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Cardiac rehabilitation program improves exercise capacity in heart transplantation recipients regardless of marginal donor factors Kazufumi Kitagaki1,4 · Rei Ono4 · Yukihiro Shimada1 · Hidetoshi Yanagi1 · Harumi Konishi3 · Michio Nakanishi1,2 Received: 31 July 2020 / Accepted: 13 November 2020 © Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is recommended to improve exercise capacity after heart transplantation (HTx); however, the effects of marginal donor factors are unclear. Forty-one recipients participated in a 3-month CR program early after HTx (mean age 39 ± 14 years; 88% male). Patients were divided into marginal (≥ 2 marginal donor factors; n = 24) and control groups ( 13 mm), LV dysfunction (LVEF
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