Beneficial effects of sauna bathing for heart failure patients

Experimental and Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-32

  Blum, Nava ^a,c   Blum, Arnon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BARUCH PADEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Endothelial function

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRATE;

ANGINA PECTORIS; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FINLAND; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYDROTHERAPY; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REVIEW; SAFETY; SAUNA; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 34147191067     PISSN: 12056626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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