[Dry immersion in combined therapy of edema syndrome and its effects on hemodynamics]

Therapeutic 'dry' immersion (modified 'dry' immersion technique suggested earlier for simulation of the weightlessness state in cosmic research) was used in multiple-modality treatment of 15 patients with drug-resistant edematous syndrome of different origin. Therapeutic 'dry' immersion sessions lasting from 1.5 to 6 hrs potentiated the effects of diuretics and promoted compensation, thus improving central hemodynamics parameters.