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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">97</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">Bulgarian Cardiology</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">1310-7488</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">2683-1015</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Bulgarian Society of Cardiology</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3897/bgcardio.28.e79418</article-id>
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          <subject>Hemodynamics (хемодинамика)</subject>
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        <article-title>Physical activity and cardiac rehabilitation in COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular complications</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Cherneva</surname>
            <given-names>Zh.</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">jenicherneva@yahoo.com</email>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Cherneva</surname>
            <given-names>R.</given-names>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
      </aff>
      <aff id="A2">
        <label>2</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">MHATLD Sv. Sofia, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria</addr-line>
        <institution>MHATLD Sv. Sofia, Medical University</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Sofia</addr-line>
        <country>Bulgaria</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Zh. Cherneva (<email xlink:type="simple">jenicherneva@yahoo.com</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: Angel Terziev</p>
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      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>30</day>
        <month>09</month>
        <year>2022</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>28</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <fpage>39</fpage>
      <lpage>50</lpage>
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      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>12</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>16</day>
          <month>01</month>
          <year>2022</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Zh. Cherneva, R. Cherneva</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.</license-p>
        </license>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Recent data has revealed the cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 infection. The mechanism of cardiovascular impairments involves binding of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus-2 (CoV-2) to the protein angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), thus penetrating into the cells. There are other mechanisms, most of which are under research and will be explained. Cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 infection are heart failure, cardiomyopathy, acute coronary syndrome, arrhythmias, and venous thromboembolism. This article aims to collect scientific evidence by exploring PubMed, Scopus, and Pedro databases to show the cardiovascular complications of COVID-19 infection and the benefit of physiotherapy treatment for these patients. Exercise training is a powerful element in physiotherapy and an important part of cardiac rehabilitation. It contributes to significant changes of the cardiovascular system - recovery of endothelial dysfunction and prevention of thromboembolic complications. In conclusion, due to the wide variety of programs of exercise training, as well as patient monitoring, physical activity is appropriate strategy for the treatment of cardiovascular complications of various degrees in post-COVID patients. </p>
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