Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR)is a branch of rehabilitation medicine dealing with optimizing physical function in patients with cardiac diseases. CR services are generally provided in an outpatient setting as comprehensive, long-term programs involving medical evaluation, prescribed exercise, cardiac risk factor modification, education and counseling. While the "glue" of cardiac rehabilitation is exercise, programs are evolving to become comprehensive prevention centers where all aspects of preventive cardiology care are delivered. This includes nutritional therapies, weight loss programs, management of lipid abnormalities with diet and medication, blood pressure control, diabetes management and stress management. Patients typically enter cardiac rehabilitation in the weeks following an acute coronary event such as an myocardial infarction (heart attack), coronary bypass surgery, coronary stent placement or replacement of a heart valve. This new and important book gathers the latest research from around the globe in the study of cardiac rehabilitation and highlights such topics as: cardiac rehabilitation in women, deep vein thrombosis after cardiac surgery, cardiac rehabilitation in children with congenital heart disease and others.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter I. Postural Blood Pressure Dysregulation and Dementia: Evidences for a Vicious Circle, and Implications for Neurocardiovascular Rehabilitation, pp. 1-38
(Jarbas S. Roriz-Filho, Silvio R. Bernardes-Silva-Filho, Idiane Rosset, Matheus Roriz-Cruz, Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto at University of São Paulo-RP, Brazil and others)

Chapter II. Cardiac Rehabilitation in Women, pp. 39-73
(Arzu Daşkapan, Baskent University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Ankara, Turkey)

Chapter III. Effects of Exercise on the Prevention and Rehabilitation of Diastolic Heart Failure, pp. 75-97
(Luis F. Joaquim, Jarbas R. Roriz-Filho, Idiane Rosset, Matheus Roriz-Cruz, Department of Internal Medicine. School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto at University of São Paulo, Brazil and others)

Chapter IV. Does Treating Hypertension in the Very Elderly Equally Reduce Mortality in All Subgroups?, pp. 99-119
(Adriano Lubini, Jarbas S. Roriz-Filho, Idiane Rosset-Cruz, Matheus Roriz-Cruz, Geriatric Medicine Study Group. Department of Internal Medicine, Brazilian Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil and others)

Chapter V. Cardiac Rehabilitation, pp. 121-141
(Kaatje Goetschalckx, Robert Fagard, Hypertension and Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leuven K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Chapter VI. Metabolic Syndrome, Myocardial Aging, and Diastolic Heart Failure: Related Mechanisms and Implications for Cardiac Rehabilitation, pp. 143-163
(Eduardo Borges de Oliveira, Jarbas R. Roriz-Filho, Idiane Rosset, Matheus Roriz-Cruz,
Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto at University of São Paulo-RP, Brazil and others)

Chapter VII. Asymptomatic Upper-Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis Catheter-Related and Pulmonary Embolism after Cardiac Surgery: A Prospective Study of 1000 Patients Admitted to Intensive Cardiac Rehabilitation, pp. 165-184
(Rino Frizzelli, Ornella Tortelli, Emanuele Bassi, Redenta Ghirardi, Claudio Pinzi, Cleante Scarduelli, Division of Cardiorespiratory Physiopathology and Rehabilitation Unit, Multifunctional Rehabilitation Hospital, Bozzolo, Mantova, Italy)

Chapter VIII. Participation Compliance and Outcomes of Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Programs among Women in Low Resource Settings, pp. 185-197
(Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Katayoun Rabiei, Professor of Medicine, Director, Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, WHO Collaborating Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran and others)

Chapter IX. Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression and Anxiety in Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation, pp. 199-210
(Karl Kristjánsson, Þórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Magnús R Jónasson, Reykjalundur Rehabilitation Center, Mosfellsbær, Iceland)

Chapter X. Cardiac Rehabilitation in Children with Congenital Heart Disease, pp. 211-218
(Tony Reybrouck, and Marc Gewillig, Departments of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Pediatric Cardiology, Gasthuisberg University Hospital and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)

Index