Functional electrical stimulation of lower limbs in patients with chronic heart failure

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 563-579

  Karavidas, Apostolos ^a   Arapi, Sophia M ^a   Pyrgakis, Vlassios ^a   Adamopoulos, Stamatis ^b  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Exercise training; Functional electrical stimulation; Heart failure; Neuromuscular stimulation; Skeletal muscles

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; ESTROGEN RELATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE; INTERLEUKIN 6; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM CALCIUM TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXO; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; BICYCLE ERGOMETER; CAPILLARY DENSITY; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RATE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LEG; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TWITCH; MYOPATHY; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRAINING; VASCULARIZATION; WALKING SPEED;

EID: 78149359760     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-010-9171-9     Document Type: Review

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