Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 618-621 , April 2008

Outpatient Rehabilitation in Patients With Coronary Artery and Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

Presented at the World Congress of Cardiology, September 5, 2006, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Raban V. Jeger, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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  • Peter Rickenbacher, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital Bruderholz, Bruderholz, Switzerland.
    • ,
  • Matthias E. Pfisterer, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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  • Andreas Hoffmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests to Andreas Hoffmann, MD, Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation, Dept of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland

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 Supported by the Kardiales ambulantes Rehabilitationsprogramm beider Basel, Divisions of Cardiology, University Hospital Basel, and Kantonsspital Bruderholz.

 No commercial party having a direct financial interest in the results of the research supporting this article has or will confer a benefit upon the authors or upon any organization with which the authors are associated.

PII: S0003-9993(07)01847-3

doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2007.09.040

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Volume 89, Issue 4 , Pages 618-621 , April 2008

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