Objectives: This study evaluated the capacity of cardiac risk stratification protocols on simple complications that occur during activities of a cardiovascular rehabilitation program. Design: Observational longitudinal ...

As the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic marches unrelentingly, more patients with cardiac arrhythmias are emerging due to the effects of the virus on the respiratory and cardiovascular (CV) systems and the systemic ...

Objective: To analyze the interrater agreement among physiotherapists in using 7 risk stratification (RS) protocols to evaluate participants of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and the main factors associated with disagreements ...

American trypanosomiasis (Chagas disease, CD) affects circa 7 million persons worldwide. While of those persons present the asymptomatic, indeterminate chronic form (ICF), many will eventually progress to cardiac or digestive ...

Introduction: Psoriasis is a chronic, immune mediated and genetically disease. Cardiovascular diseases seem to occur more frequently in these patients, including a higher risk of arrhythmias. Parameters of ...

Introduction: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a class I of recommendation after a cardiac event. Cardiovascular diseases are the leading causes of deaths from chronic noncommunicable diseases in Brazil. Thus, home-based ...

A child living in the Brazilian Amazon region who had had vivax malaria at the age of 11 months was admitted three months later with a history of progressive dyspnoea and fever, which culminated in respiratory distress and ...

A Organização Mundial da Saúde classificou as doenças cardiovasculares como as principais causas de mortes no mundo, responsáveis por altas taxas de internação e elevados custos hospitalares. A expressividade desses valores ...

INTRODUCTION. Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is indicated for patients with severe ventricular dysfunction, advanced stages of heart failure (HF) and refractory to conventional treatment. It is an artificial ...