OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the modifications of the frequency of physical activities practice of the patients submitted to coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) and the influence of the frequency of physical practice activity of the patients before surgery in the surgical prognostic. METHODS: Cases studies of 55 patients submitted to CABG divided in active and sedentary in relation to physical practice activities. RESULTS: After CAGB 14 (47%) of the patients classified as sedentary before surgery were practing exercises (p=0.03). Seventeen (59%) sedentary patients in the pre-operatory period presented complications after the surgery comparing to 8 (31%) in those actives (p= 0.4%). The post-operatory period of hospitalization in the sedentary group and in those that were active in the pre-operatory period were respctively 15 (SD=8) and 12 (SD=5) days p=0.03. CONCLUSION: This study showed the importance of preoperatory physical activity practice in the results of coronary artery bypass surgery. The patients physically active had a shorter time of postoperative hospital stay and a smaller number of hospital and one year follow up surgery complications. The cardiac surgery promoted a modification of the habits of the patients increasing the number of physically active patients during the one year follow up.
Exercise; Surgery; Post-operative complications; Myocardial revascularization; Risk reduction behavior
