Does thermal vasodilation improve hemodynamics in patients with chronic congestive heart failure?
Thermal vasodilation provides acute hemodynamic improvement in chronic CHF patients by reducing preload and afterload, offering a potential nonpharmacological therapy.
Hemodynamics improve after WWB or SB in patients with chronic CHF. This is attributable to the reduction in cardiac preload and afterload. Thus, thermal vasodilation can be applied with little risk if appropriately performed and may provide a new nonpharmacological therapy for CHF.
Tei et al. (1995) studied this question.