Warm water immersion in patients with chronic heart failure: a pilot study : Shah immerse: HF.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with chronic conditions, such as heart failure, swim regularly and most rehabilitation exercises are conducted in warm hydrotherapy pools. However, little is known about the acute effects of warm water immersion (WWI) on cardiac haemodynamics in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

Methods

Seventeen patients with CHF (NYHA I and II; mean age 67 years, 88% male, mean left ventricular ejection fraction 33%) and 10 age-matched normal subjects were immersed up to the neck in a hydrotherapy pool (33-35 °C). Cardiac haemodynamics were measured non-invasively, and echocardiography was performed at baseline, during WWI, 3 min after kicking in the supine position and after emerging.

Results

In patients with CHF, compared to baseline, WWI immediately i

SUBMITTER: Shah P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6484774 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature