Low-frequency electrical stimulation increases muscle strength and improves blood supply in patients with chronic heart failure

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Dobšák, Petr ^a,e   Nováková, Marie ^a   Siegelová, Jarmila ^a   Fišer, Bohumil ^a   Vítovec, Jiří ^a   Nagasaka, Makoto ^b   Kohzuki, Masahiro ^b   Yambe, Tomoyuki ^c   Nitta, Shin Ichi ^c   Eicher, Jean Christophe ^d   Wolf, Jean Eric ^d   Imachi, Kou ^b  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^e ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Heart failure; Muscle; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYNAMOMETRY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; TORQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 29644433253     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.75     Document Type: Article

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