Exercise Training After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

Exclusion Criteria

• •contraindications for exercise training,
• •unstable hearth (uncontrollable heart failure - New York Heart Association stage IV, dysrhythmias, uncontrollable myocardial ischemia),
• •patient's decision to undergo TAVI despite receiving a recommendation for Surgical Aortic Valve Repair by the heart team,
• •non-cardiac physical impairment that would prevent exercise training on stationary bike,
• •uncontrolled pulmonary disease (FEV1 \<50%),
• •echocardiographic signs of prosthesis dysfunction according to the Valve Academic Research Consortium (valve orifice area of b1.2 cm2 plus a mean transaortic pressure gradient of ≥20 mm Hg, or a velocity of ≥3 m/s, at least moderate paravalvular regurgitation),
• •TAVI access site complication,
• •important peripheral vascular disease, musculoskeletal disease or central nervous system disease, which prevents exercise training on stationary bike,
• •recent (less than 3 months) acute events or illnesses that are contraindications for exercise training.