Prisca Eser1,*, Thomas Gruber1, Thimo Marcin1, Claudia Boeni1,2, Kerstin Wustmann3, Christina DeLuigi1, Matthias Greutmann4, Daniel Tobler5, Markus Schwerzmann3, Matthias Wilhelm1
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.16, No.1, pp. 73-84, 2021, DOI:10.32604/CHD.2021.013051
Abstract Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) benefit from exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) short- and long-term with regard to improvement of cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: Cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPET) completed by ACHD patients between January 2000 and October 2019 were analysed retrospectively. Linear mixed models were performed for peak oxygen consumption (VO2) with patients as random effect and age, sex, disease classification, preceding surgery (≤3 months) and preceding CR (≤4 weeks for short term and >4 weeks for long term) as fixed effects. Results: 1056 CPETs of 311 ACHD patients with… More >
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