Publications by authors named "Lucia Brandao de Oliveira"
Objective: The aim was to investigate the acute effect of kinesthetic motor imagery of the 2-minute walk test on hemodynamic and cardiopulmonary variables in patients with heart failure.
Methods: Twenty participants were recruited for the analysis of these variables before and after the execution and imagination of the 2-minute walk test, with the number of laps executed and imagined being recorded.
Results: The main results observed showed that (1) there was no difference in the number of laps executed and imagined (p=0.
Article Synopsis
- - A study in Brazil was conducted to evaluate how heart failure disease management program (DMP) components affect care and clinical decisions, involving cardiologists surveyed from various public and private centers.
- - Results showed that public HF-DMPs provided significantly more dedicated services, educational programs, written discharge instructions, and multidisciplinary care compared to private DMPs; whereas, non-multidisciplinary programs had fewer educational initiatives and monitoring practices.
- - The survey revealed that physicians often adjusted or started new medications primarily during patient hospitalizations, highlighting the importance of care settings in patient management.
Background Inspiratory muscle weakness contributes to exercise intolerance and decreased quality of life in patients with heart failure. Studies with inspiratory muscle training show improvement in inspiratory muscle strength, functional capacity and quality of life. However, little is known about the central hemodynamic response (CHR) during inspiratory exercise (IE).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Heart failure (HF) is associated with frequent decompensation and admissions to the emergency service. Influenza (INF) and Pneumococcal (pneumonia) vaccinations are recommended in the guidelines, however, respiratory infections are the third leading cause of hospitalization in heart failure.
Objective: To assess the frequency of vaccination against INF and PNM in patients with HF in government healthcare units.
Background: Developing hypertension is likely to be at least two times greater in individual with exaggerated blood pressure response on exercise testing (ET). Few reports have evaluated the parameters of 24-hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) in normotensive individuals with exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise.
Objective: To evaluate the relationship among the casual blood pressure with hyper-reactive response on ET and to compare Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (ABPM) data of hyper-reactive individuals with a control group in order to detect early disorders, that allows a preventive action with prognostic implication.