Cardiac Rehabilitation has evolved over the past decades from a simple monitoring for the
safe return to physical activities to a multidisciplinary approach that focuses on patient …

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is an important cause of impaired heart function in
the early postoperative period subsequent to cardiac surgery. Reactive oxygen species …

Reactive oxygen or nitrogen species play an integral role in both myocardial injury and
repair. This dichotomy is differentiated at the level of species type, amount and duration of …

Objective: To determine the impact of an exercise-based prehabilitation (EBPrehab)
program on preand postoperative exercise capacity, functional capacity (FC) and quality of …

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) are uniquely capable of crossing germinative layers borders
(ie are able to differentiate towards ectoderm-, mesoderm-and endoderm-derived cytotypes) …

Background: The overall utilization of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is low despite its proven
benefits in secondary prevention. Virtual reality (VR), a novel method of rehabilitation, may …

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia associated with coronary
artery surgery and is an important factor contributing to postoperative morbidity and …

BACKGROUND: Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) develop similar symptoms of
exertional breathlessness and fatigue as patients with COPD. Although pulmonary (exercise …

The aim of the present study was to determine whether the endothelial dysfunction
associated with CAD (coronary artery disease) and T2D (Type 2 diabetes mellitus) is …

Purposes Our ability to predict complications of ventral hernia repairs (VHR) are inadequate.
Although impact of patient comorbidities and hospital characteristics on outcomes of several …