A warm footbath improves coronary flow reserve in patients with mild-to-moderate coronary artery disease

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1119-1124

  Yoon, Se Jung ^a   Park, Jong Kwan ^a   Oh, Seungjin ^a   Jeon, Dong Woon ^a   Yang, Joo Young ^a   Hong, Suk Min ^a   Kwak, Min Sub ^a   Choi, Yoon Suk ^a   Rim, Se Joong ^b   Youn, Ho Joong ^c  

^a National Health Insurance Corporation   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; coronary flow reserve; echocardiography; warm footbath

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; NITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY FLOW RESERVE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUNA; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BATHS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOOT; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE, MYOCARDIAL; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81155150054     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01493.x     Document Type: Article

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