Exercise Training and Rehabilitation in Pulmonary Hypertension

Nicola Benjamin; Alberto Maria Marra; Christina Eichstaedt; Ekkehard Grünig

doi:10.1016/j.hfc.2018.03.008

Exercise Training and Rehabilitation in Pulmonary Hypertension

Heart Fail Clin. 2018 Jul;14(3):425-430. doi: 10.1016/j.hfc.2018.03.008.

Authors

Nicola Benjamin¹, Alberto Maria Marra², Christina Eichstaedt¹, Ekkehard Grünig³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pneumology, Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Röntgenstraße 1, Heidelberg 69126, Germany; German Center of Lung Research (DZL), TLRC Heidelberg, Germany.
² IRCCS SDN, Via Gianturco 113, Naples 80143, Italy.
³ Department of Pneumology, Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Röntgenstraße 1, Heidelberg 69126, Germany; German Center of Lung Research (DZL), TLRC Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: Ekkehard.gruenig@med.uni-heidelberg.de.

PMID: 29966639
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2018.03.008

Abstract

Within the last years, exercise training and rehabilitation as add-on to medical treatment has become an emerging field in pulmonary hypertension. Owing to the beneficial effects of exercise training in pulmonary hypertension, the new European Respiratory Society/European Society of Cardiology guidelines for pulmonary hypertension recommended a supervised and closely monitored exercise and respiratory training/rehabilitation as add-on to medical therapy (class IIa, level of evidence B). In this article, different training modalities, effects of exercise training, possible pathobiological mechanisms of action, and future research questions are discussed.

Keywords: Exercise training; Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Pulmonary hypertension; Rehabilitation; Training effects.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Exercise Therapy / methods*
Exercise Tolerance / physiology
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary / physiopathology
Hypertension, Pulmonary / rehabilitation*
Quality of Life
Survival Rate