Comparison of muscle functional electrical stimulation to conventional bicycle exercise on endothelium and functional status indices in patients with heart failure

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1621-1625

  Deftereos, Spyridon ^a   Giannopoulos, Georgios ^a   Raisakis, Konstantinos ^a   Kossyvakis, Charalampos ^a   Kaoukis, Andreas ^a   Driva, Metaxia ^a   Pappas, Loukas ^a   Panagopoulou, Vasiliki ^a   Ntzouvara, Olga ^a   Karavidas, Apostolos ^a   Pyrgakis, Vlasios ^a   Rentoukas, Ilias ^a   Aggeli, Constadina ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYCLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATION;

EID: 78649323180     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.07.040     Document Type: Article

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