Post Transplantation and Lifestyle: Focus on Exercise Prescription

Dear Colleagues,

Lifestyle is an important aspect of managing several metabolic chronic diseases, and tailored exercise is especially recommended in many cases. Sports medicine focuses on these aspects, targeting the multiple positive effects of moderate-intensity mixed exercise. New subjects have been included in exercise prescription programs; among them, solid organ transplant patients are an emerging group for whom physical activity and sports are suggested.

They can be included in several tailored physical exercise programs, especially considering that transplantation is a risk factor for the development of “heart disease”, both pre- and post-transplant. Even with surgical treatment there is an increased prevalence of specific cardiovascular risk factors and, consequently, patients are affected by greater morbidity and mortality. A healthy lifestyle and physical activity are recommended to improve such outcomes.

This Special Issue aims to highlight physical activity in transplanted subjects. Myocardial function, body composition, and cardiopulmonary tests are fundamental in planning such exercise.

Dr. Laura Stefani
Guest Editor

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