Thermal therapy: A viable adjunct in the treatment of heart failure?

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 180-186

  Mussivand, Tofy ^a   Alshaer, Hisham ^a   Haddad, Haissam ^a   Beanlands, Donald S ^a   Beanlands, Rob ^a   Chan, Kwan Leung ^a   Higginson, Lyall ^a   Leenen, Frans ^a   Ruddy, Terrence D ^a   Mesana, Thierry ^a   Silver, Marc A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b Christ Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEART FAILURE; HEAT; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES AS TOPIC; HEART FAILURE; HEAT; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 55249106136     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2008.07792.x     Document Type: Article

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