Effect of Rehabilitation on Ejection Fraction (FE) in Cardiopathic and Non Cardiopathic Patients Undergoing Major Orthopedic Surgery

Effect of Rehabilitation on Ejection Fraction (FE) in Cardiopathic and Non Cardiopathic Patients Undergoing Major Orthopedic Surgery

It is a trial aimed to evaluate the ejection fraction in the preoperative phase and during follow-up in two groups of subjects undergoing major orthopedic surgery: the first consisting of subjects without history of cardiac disease, and the second from subjects with a history of cardiopulmonary disease

Inclusion Criteria:

• Age: < or equal 18 and > or equal 85 years
• major orthopedic surgery
• rehabilitation at our site
• a positive history for the cardiopathic group

Exclusion Criteria:

• Age: > 85 and < 18
• impossibility to participate to the rehabilitative protocol or come to the follow up visit
• lack of consensus
• previous acute cerebrovascular and / or cardiological events within 6 months prior to enrollment
• previous myocardial (percutaneous and / or surgical) revascularization interventions within the 6 months prior to enrollment
• previous (even in pediatric age) interventions of surgical correction of congenital heart disease
• severe heart failure
• reimplantation of prosthesis