Long-term evaluation of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with fibrotic idiopathic interstitial pneumonias.

Benoit WallaertLouise DuthoitElodie DrumezHélène BehalLidwine WemeauCécile ChenivesseJean-Marie Grosbois

Published in: ERJ open research (2019)

Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation provides long-term benefits in exercise tolerance, anxiety and QoL for patients with f-IIP. Pulmonary rehabilitation should be prescribed systematically as part of the therapeutic arsenal for these patients.

Keyphrases

pulmonary hypertension
end stage renal disease
newly diagnosed
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
physical activity
systemic sclerosis
sleep quality