Waon Therapy Improves Peripheral Arterial Disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 2169-2171

  Tei, Chuwa ^a   Shinsato, Takuro ^a   Miyata, Masaaki ^a   Kihara, Takashi ^a   Hamasaki, Shuichi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY DISEASE; ASPLENIA; CLAUDICATION; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HINDLIMB; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LEG BLOOD FLOW; LEG PAIN; LETTER; LIMB ISCHEMIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SAUNA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULCER; WAON THERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; STEAM BATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36148986734     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.08.025     Document Type: Letter

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