New research data presented in China

Contracility index profiles could be a good predictor of outcomes in cardiac rehabilitation

These studies highlight the value of adding non-invasive, continuous hemodynamic measures of exercise to V O2 in the routine assessment of cardiac rehabilitation patients, at least at the entry and discharge assessment test. The CTi profile during CPET, measured by SM-ICG, seems to offer predictive value to anticipate the response to CR, which confirms the original study hypothesis. It is probably also interesting in its own right as an independent criterion of rehabilitation outcome (does contractility normalize after rehabilitation or not, highlighting the possible disappearance of residual ischaemia?), but this would require further research.

Further studies will demonstrate whether the prognosis approach highlighted in this study, but also the use of hemodynamic profiles to individualize and optimize training protocols, will help to improve rehabilitation outcomes and possibly make it safer