[What imaging and what tools for modern cardiac rehabilitation ?].

Conventional Cardiovascular Rehabilitation (RCV) is a global approach; it integrates reconditioning with personalized effort, physical activity (PA), therapeutic education, dietary management, smoking cessation, medication compliance. It requires a multidisciplinary approach with interventions by cardiologists, paramedics, physiotherapists, teachers of adapted physical activity (APA), dieticians, addictologists, and a specialized technical platform for evaluation and reconditioning at the 'effort. The benefit of cardiovascular rehabilitation is supported by numerous studies, it is strongly recommended class IA [1], but the supply of care is insufficient.

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We have to distinguish between non-modifiable risk factors such as age, gender, heredity, (we cannot fight against these enemies), and modifiable risk factors (avoidable) such as hypertension, smoking, diabetes, and dyslipidemia. Environmental factors, bad diet, sedentary lifestyle, and smoking are the basis of these risk factors. Cardiovascular disease due to these risk factors is clinically silent during a given period, then symptoms occur which can eventually lead to death.

[Infectious and inflammatory complications occurring after cardiac surgery in cardiac rehabilitation centres].

Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are older, have complex pathologies and several comorbidities, but need to leave the hospital quickly! Therefore, the mission of cardiac rehabilitation centres has substantially changed. Indeed, if 15 to 25% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery will have a postoperative complication requiring a hospital management (infectious, pericardial, rhythmic, neurologic, pulmonary, digestive, etc.), more than 2/3 of these acute events could be managed by cardiac rehabilitation centres for a lower cost.

[Rehabilitation of valvular patient].

Valvular disease is the second indication of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after coronary artery disease. Patients suffering valvular disease are addressed to CR after valvular repair, and are usually old. Valvular replacement are the most frequent, and more and more patients being treated by TAVI are addressed to CR.