Effects of repeated sauna treatment on ventricular arrhythmias in patients with chronic heart failure

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1146-1151

  Kihara, Takashi ^a   Biro, Sadatoshi ^a   Ikeda, Yoshiyuki ^a   Fukudome, Tsuyoshi ^a   Shinsato, Takuro ^a   Masuda, Akinori ^a   Miyata, Masaaki ^a   Hamasaki, Shuichi ^a   Otsuji, Yutaka ^a   Minagoe, Shinichi ^a   Akiba, Suminori ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Heart rate variability; Premature ventricular contractions; Sauna

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAUNA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETREATMENT; STEAM BATH; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 19944411449     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.1146     Document Type: Article

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