How to manage physiotherapy and rehabilitation in LVAD patients

5 November 2018

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The aim of this article is to describe these current guidelines in greater detail, and to provide updated state-of-the-art insights and knowledge (Piepoli 2013, Taylor 2014). Another aspect of rehabilitation is that all these cardiac patients (heart failure, LVAD, transplant) are following their training in the same place, they are progressively familiarised with the post LVAD implantation or even the post transplantation program.

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Notes to editor

Michel Lamotte, PhD - CUB Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
Dominique Hansen, PhD, FESC - Hasselt University and Heart Centre Hasselt, Belgium
Philippe Jr. Timmermans MD, Heart Centre Hasselt and University Hospital Leuven, Belgium