Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Program on Heart Rate Recovery in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Post Primary Percutaneous Coronary Angioplasty

Abstract

he present study was done to evaluate the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on heart rate recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction post successful primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty This study was conducted on sixty adult patients who were selected from CR clinic in Ain Shams University hospital (cardiology department) between November 2015 and November 2016. They were divided into two groups: Group I included 30 patients who joined and completed the CR program, Group II included also 30 patients who joined to CR program but did not complete the course of rehabilitation. These patients were almost 15 days post successful primary PCI after MI with single vessel disease or multi vessel disease who did exercise test before program to calculate HRR1 and HRR2 and to any rule out residual ischemia. The procedure was displayed to the subjects and informed written consent was taken. In order not to affect the results of the study, patients on beta blockers or other rate-reducing drugs continued using the same doses during the study period.