Setting the ball rolling on post-transplant cardiac rehabilitation in India

Abstract

Post-transplant cardiac rehabilitation reduces major adverse cardiac events and improves long-term survival but is nonexistent in India. This case series shows that cardiac rehabilitation improves health-related behaviour, health-related quality of life and functional capacity in heart transplant recipients and could potentially be considered in the routine management of this growing population in India.

Keywords

• Heart transplantation
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Health-related quality of life
• Functional capacity