Dear Colleagues,

Cardiac rehabilitation is a fundamental path for a cardiac patient. The objectives of rehabilitation look at the whole person, putting the patient under the lenses of different professional figures: cardiologists, physiotherapists, speech therapists, psychologists, dieticians, osteopaths, and nurses. The type of patient undergoing the rehabilitation process does not respond to a single clinical description, but is extremely heterogeneous; hence, there is the real difficulty of correctly framing the rehabilitation process, which should always be subjective and non-standardized. Rehabilitation encompasses multiple cardiovascular pathologies and dysfunctions: patients who have suffered a myocardial infarction, patients undergoing PTCA and stenting, bypass, valve, and aortic replacements, heart transplantation, permanent or temporary L-VAD implantation, and chronic as well as acute CHF. Heart patients can present with pathologies involving multiple organs, or to prolong life as much as possible. The studies present in the literature take into consideration patients with specific criticalities in order to make the results non-confounding. The problem, however, is that, in rehabilitation wards and hospitalizations, the patient does not necessarily reflect a perfect clinical picture and does not always reflect the type of patient in the various trials. The clinician does not choose which patients to follow, without respecting the inclusion and exclusion criteria of an experimental study. Furthermore, the trials are a synthesis of a small portion of patients compared to the millions of cardiovascular patients; that is, each study is a snapshot of people chosen on the basis of specific statistical criteria. The reality of rehabilitation does not always reflect this picture. The Special Issue "Recent Innovations in the Management of Cardiac Rehabilitation" aims to highlight not only the results of the most recent research, but to highlight further rehabilitation possibilities with respect to the cardiovascular clinical reality through multidisciplinary perspectives.

Dr. Bruno Bordoni
Guest Editor

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