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You would think that recovering from a heart transplant would involve plenty of rest, but researchers at St. Paul’s Hospital are finding the opposite is true.
They have found that physical activity is an integral part of recovering from heart failure.
“I think something like 80 per cent of people go on to do very well,” says Mary Mackenzie of St. Paul’s, who notes that’s a particularly high number when you consider a patient’s health prior to needing a mechanical device like a left ventricular assist device (LVAD).
Jon Azpiri reports
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Although many of our clients are marginalized, burdened by poverty and isolated by addiction and mental illness, these are just folks getting through the day the best way they know how. And in general they manage adequately, day-to-day.
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Dr. Scott MacDonald, Providence Crosstown Clinic