Effects of preoperative respiratory muscle training for improvement of postoperative health related quality of life in mitral valve replacement patients.

Background And Purpose: A patient's defective mitral valve is replaced as part of a treatment called mitral valve replacement (MVR) with a mechanical or biological (bioprosthetic) valve. To evaluate the effects of preoperative respiratory muscle training (RMT) on the improvement of postoperative Health related quality of life in MVR patients.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted at Faisalabad Institute of Cardiology.