Andrey V Bezdenezhnykh, PhD

CONTACT

Lead Sponsor

Research Institute for Complex Problems of Cardiovascular Diseases, Russia

Age

18 - 70 years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Patients with end-stage heart disease, listed for heart transplantation
•already received standard treatment based on patient condition
•are receiving guideline recommended pharmacologic therapy
•able to follow protocol procedures
•assigned the informed consent
•do not regularly exercise (10 minutes or more a day of exercise most days of the week for the past week).

•UNOS 1a or 1b patients
•already receive NMES at femoris area in last 6 weeks before admission
•Patients, who have undertaken cardiac rehab within the 12 months prior to enrollment
•Cognitive, orthopedic or neurological disorders or other impairment which prevents accurate application of intervention or inability to provide informed consent
•End Stage Renal Disease
•Uncontrolled arrhythmia's or 3rd degree AV heart block
•Those with wounds over area of proper placement of electrodes