Preliminary clinical experience with waon therapy in Korea: safety and effect
Sohn IS, Cho JM, Kim WS, Kim CJ, Kim KS, Bae JH, Tei C
Journal of cardiovascular ultrasound · 7 citas
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- Kyung Hee University
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Publicación
- Publicado
- 2010-01-01 · J Cardiovasc Ultrasound · vol. 18 · número 2 · pág. 37
- Citado
- 11 citas · más que el 93% de estudios similares · 3.9× el promedio de su campo
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- Entre el 10 % más citado de su campo
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- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista híbrida) · CC-BY-NC
- Áreas de investigación
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology · Thermoregulation and physiological responses · Biofield Effects and Biophysics
- Palabras clave
- Medicine, Heart failure, Ejection fraction, Blood pressure, Diastole, Cardiology, Internal medicine, Heart rate, Sitting
7 autores
- Il-Suk Sohn🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Jin Man Cho🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Woo-Shik Kim🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Chong Jin Kim🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Kwon-Sam Kim🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Jong-Hoa Bae🇰🇷Kyung Hee University
- Chuwa Tei🇯🇵Kagoshima University
Resumen
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Background
Waon therapy has beneficial effects on chronic heart failure (CHF), peripheral arterial disease, and other various diseases. This was to assess the safety and effect of Waon therapy by echocardiography for the first time in Korea.
Methods
Ten patients with CHF were enrolled. The patients with a light gown were placed in a sitting-position in an evenly maintained 60 dry sauna system for 15 minutes, and then after leaving the sauna, they underwent bed rest with a blanket to keep them warm for an additional 30 minutes. Waon therapy was performed once a day, 5 days a week.
Results
Four of the 5 patients who had been treated for more than 2 weeks as protocol noted improvement of heart failure (HF) symptoms and decrease in left ventricular (LV) volume. There were trends in improvement of LV ejection fraction and parameters of diastolic function after the therapy although statistical significance was lack. No one complained of worsening of HF symptoms. In each session, body weight (61.8+/-10.2 kg vs. 61.6+/-10.3 kg, p=0.008) and blood pressure (systolic, 119+/-28 vs. 111+/-27 mmHg, p=0.005; diastolic, 69+/-12 mmHg vs. 63+/-10 mmHg, p=0.005) were significantly decreased, oral temperature (35.9+/-0.4 vs. 37.0+/-0.9, p=0.017) was increased by 1.0 at the end of sauna bathing, but the heart rate (71+/-10/min vs. 72+/-8/min, p=0.8) was not changed.
Conclusion
We have experienced Waon therapy which was safe and well tolerated and some beneficial effects for patients with CHF. Large scale randomized study is needed to apply Waon therapy as a promising therapy in Korean HF patients.
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