Physical Exercise in Managing Takayasu Arteritis Patients Complicated With Cardiovascular Diseases

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Zhenbiao Wu¹  Kui Zhang¹  Yaxin Zhou¹  Hongxia Li²  Yuan Feng³  Wei Zhang⁴ 

[1] Department of Clinical Immunology, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University), Xi'an, China;Department of Clinical Immunology, Xijing Hospital, Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University), Xi'an, China;Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Air Force Medical Center, Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University), Beijing, China;Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Tangdu Hospital, Air Force Medical University (Fourth Military Medical University), Xi'an, China;Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Xi'an No.5 Hospital, Xi'an, China;

关键词: physical exercise;    Takayasu arteritis;    large-vessel vasculitis;    cardiac diseases;    exercise prescription;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fcvm.2021.603354

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a kind of large-vessel vasculitis that mainly affects the aorta and its branches, and the patients are usually women at a relatively young age. The chronic inflammation of arteries in TA patients leads to stenosis, occlusion, dilatation, or aneurysm formation. Patients with TA thereby have a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications, which are the most common cause of mortality. This review summarizes the main cardiovascular complications and the risk factors of cardiovascular complications in patients with TA. Here, we discuss the benefits and potential risks of physical exercise in patients with TA and give recommendations about exercise prescription for TA patients to decrease the risks of CVD and facilitate rehabilitation of cardiovascular complications, which might maximally improve the outcomes.

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