Multimodal Prehabilitation to Improve Quality of Life and Functional Capacity in Peripheral Arterial Disease: A Case Series.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess feasibility and effect of multimodal prehabilitation in patients with severe life-limiting intermittent claudication and complex infrainguinal disease.

Design

Case series of patients who underwent a 12-week prehabilitation program.

Setting

Outpatient clinic of a public tertiary hospital.

Participants

Patients with a diagnosis of severe life-limiting intermittent claudication (Fontaine stage IIb and III) with complex infrainguinal disease or previous failed bypass attempts (N=5) who were referred to the prehabilitation clinic by a vascular surgeon.

Interventions

Patients underwent a baseline assessment that included quality of life questionnaires and functional capacity tests. After baseline assessment, they received a 12-week prehabi

SUBMITTER: Coca-Martinez M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8463456 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature