Exercise Training after Myocardial Infarction Attenuates Dysfunctional Ventricular Remodeling and Promotes Cardiac Recovery.

ABSTRACT

Recent evidences have shown that exercise training not only plays a necessary role in maintaining cardiac homeostasis, but also promotes cardiac repair after myocardial infarction. Post-myocardial infarction, exercise training has been observed to effectively increase the maximum cardiac output, and protect myocardial cells against necrosis and apoptosis, thus leading to an improved quality of life of myocardial infarction patients. In fact, exercise training has received more attention as an adjunct therapeutic strategy for both treatment and prevention of myocardial infarction. This review summarizes the experimental evidence of the effects of exercise training in ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction, and tries to provide theoretical basis along with suitable references for the exercise prescription aimed at prevention and therapy of myocardial infarction.