Why Cardiac Rehabilitation Is Done

Cardiac rehabilitation is a professionally supervised program for people with many forms of heart disease. You may benefit if your medical history includes:

• Angioplasty and stents
• Cardiomyopathy
• Certain congenital heart diseases
• Chest pain (angina)
• Coronary artery bypass surgery
• Coronary artery disease
• Heart attack
• Heart failure
• Heart or lung transplant
• Heart valve repair or replacement
• Peripheral artery disease
• Pulmonary hypertension