Effect of postoperative high load long duration inspiratory muscle training on pulmonary function and functional capacity after mitral valve replacement surgery: A randomized controlled trial with follow-up

• Fatma A. Hegazy ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fhegazy@sharjah.ac.ae

  Affiliations Department of Physiotherapy, Collage of Health Sciences, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7457-083X

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• Sara M. Mohamed Kamel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy, National Heart Institute, Cairo, Egypt

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• Ahmed S. Abdelhamid,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy for Musculoskeletal Disorders and Its Surgeries, Faculty of Physical Therapy, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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• Emad A. Aboelnasr,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

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• Mahmoud Elshazly,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy for Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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• Ali M. Hassan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical Therapy for Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Faculty of Physical Therapy, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt

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