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Many researchers have reported that vasodilators, such as angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (The CONSENSUS Trial Study Group, 1987), angiotensin receptor blockers (Cohn et al., 1999), and beta-blockers (CIBIS Investigators et al., 1994), improve prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Furthermore, new technologies to treat CHF, such as cardiac rehabilitation, cardiac resynchronization therapy, left ventricular assist devices, and left ventricular reconstruction surgery, have been developed over the past decade. Despite advances in therapy for heart failure, improving clinical outcomes of patients with acute decompensation of CHF remains a challenge for physicians. Re-hospitalization within 60—90 days occurs in approximately 30% of patients with acute decompensation of CHF (Mann, 2008). In 1989, Tei et al. developed a form of thermal therapy for heart failure that uses a variation of the traditional dry sauna with temperature maintained at 60°C (Tei et al., 1994; Tei et al., 1995). This new form of thermal treatment is defined as warming the entire body in a uniformly heated chamber for 15 min at a temperature that relaxes both the mind and body. After the core temperature has increased by 1.0–1.2°C, the patient rests outside the sauna for a further 30 min to maintain the soothing effect, and fluids corresponding to perspiration loss are supplied to protect against dehydration at the end of therapy (Tei, 2007). Tei et al. have previously reported that the repeated use of a dry 60 ◦C sauna by CHF patients improves hemodynamics (Tei et al., 1995), ameliorates symptoms (Tei & Tanaka, 1996), suppresses ventricular arrhythmias (Kihara et al., 2004), and improves vascular function (Kihara et al., 2002). Recently, in a prospective multicenter case-control study, 2 weeks of dry sauna therapy was shown to improve clinical symptoms and cardiac function in CHF patients (Miyata et al., 2008). Repeated sauna therapy also improved survival in TO2 cardiomyopathic hamsters with heart failure (Ikeda et al., 2002). A recent retrospective follow-up study (Kihara et al., 2009) has shown that sauna therapy decreased cardiac death and re-hospitalization in patients with CHF over a 60-month follow-up period. A large number of end-stage CHF patients in Japan have been implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) because of prolonged waiting periods for heart transplants

Initial Experience of Lower Limb Thermal Therapy for Patients with an Extracorporeal Left Ventricular Assist Device Awaiting Heart Transplantation