PMID- 30216680 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190110 LR - 20190110 IS - 1747-0803 (Electronic) IS - 1747-079X (Linking) VI - 13 IP - 6 DP - 2018 Nov TI - Efficiency of the home cardiac rehabilitation program for adults with complex congenital heart disease. PG - 952-958 LID - 10.1111/chd.12659 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVE: We aimed to study the efficiency and safety of once-a-week outpatient rehabilitation followed by home program with tele-monitoring in patients with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease. DESIGN: Prospective nonrandomized study. METHOD: Patients who have been diagnosed either Eisenmenger's syndrome or inoperable complex cyanotic heart disease and able to attend 12-week cardiac rehabilitation program were included. Training with treadmill walking and bicycling under supervision at cardiac rehabilitation unit once-a-week in the first 6 weeks followed by home-based exercise program (bicycle and walking) with a target at 40%-70% of maximum heart rate (HRmax) at pretraining peak exercise for another 6 weeks was performed in the intervention group. Video and telephone calls were scheduled for evaluation of compliance and complication. Data from cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) on cycle ergometry including peak oxygen consumption (peakVO(2) ), oxygen pulse (O(2) pulse), ventilatory equivalent for carbon dioxide (VE/CO(2) at anaerobic threshold), constant work-rate endurance time (CWRET) at 75% of peak VO(2) , and 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) were compared between baseline and after training by paired t test. RESULT: Of the 400 patients in our adult congenital heart disease clinic, 60 patients met the inclusion criteria. Eleven patients who could follow program regularly were assigned home program. There was a statistically significant improvement of CWRET, O(2) pulse, and 6MWD after finishing the program (P = .003, .039, and .001, respectively). The mean difference of 6MWD change in the home-program group was significantly higher than in the control group (69.3 +/- 47.9 meters vs. 4.1 +/- 43.4 meters, P = .003). No serious adverse outcomes were reported during home training. CONCLUSION: Once-a-week outpatient hospital-based exercise program followed by supervised home-based exercise program showed a significant benefit in improvement of exercise capacity in adults with complex cyanotic congenital heart disease without serious adverse outcomes. CI - (c) 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. FAU - Bhasipol, Adikan AU - Bhasipol A AD - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Sanjaroensuttikul, Nopawan AU - Sanjaroensuttikul N AD - Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Pornsuriyasak, Prapaporn AU - Pornsuriyasak P AD - Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Yamwong, Sukit AU - Yamwong S AD - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Tangcharoen, Tarinee AU - Tangcharoen T AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3062-977X AD - Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. LA - eng GR - RF_60087/Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University/ GR - RF_60087/Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180914 PL - United States TA - Congenit Heart Dis JT - Congenital heart disease JID - 101256510 SB - IM MH - Adult MH - Cardiac Rehabilitation/*methods MH - Exercise Therapy/*methods MH - Exercise Tolerance/*physiology MH - Female MH - Follow-Up Studies MH - Heart Defects, Congenital/physiopathology/*rehabilitation MH - *Home Care Services MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Oxygen Consumption/physiology MH - *Patient Compliance MH - Prospective Studies OTO - NOTNLM OT - Eisenmenger's syndrome OT - adult congenital heart disease OT - complex cyanotic congenital heart disease OT - home-based cardiac rehabilitation EDAT- 2018/09/15 06:00 MHDA- 2019/01/11 06:00 CRDT- 2018/09/15 06:00 PHST- 2018/04/24 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/17 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/06/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/09/15 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/01/11 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/09/15 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/chd.12659 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Congenit Heart Dis. 2018 Nov;13(6):952-958. doi: 10.1111/chd.12659. Epub 2018 Sep 14.