| Noninvasive therapy for the management of patients with advanced coronary artery disease. | |
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PMID: 23011412 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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OBJECTIVES: To determine the efficacy of cardiac shock wave therapy (CSWT) in the management of patients with end-stage coronary artery disease (CAD). INTRODUCTION: Patients with end-stage CAD have symptoms such as recurrent angina, breathlessness, and other debilitating conditions. End-stage CAD patients are usually those who have angina pectoris following a coronary artery bypass surgery or a percutaneous coronary intervention. These patients are refractory to optimal medical therapy and not fit for a redo procedure, and are often termed as 'no option' patients. METHODS: We carried out a prospective cohort study to examine the effects of CSWT application in patients who had end-stage CAD and were no option patients. Characteristics such as angina class scores and functional status scores among cases (patients with end-stage CAD who received CSWT) and controls (patients with end-stage CAD who did not receive CSWT) were compared at baseline and at 6 months after CSWT therapy. RESULTS: There were 43 patients in the case group and 43 patients in the control group. The mean age of the patients was 58.7±9.5 years in the case group and 56.6±11.6 years in the control group. Other characteristics such as the prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, coronary artery bypass graft and percutaneous coronary intervention were similar in both groups. Clinical results showed a significant improvement in exercise time between the cases and the controls 6 months after treatment with CSWT (20.1±15.7 min in cases vs. 10.1±4.2 min in controls; P<0.0001), and symptomatic improvement in the CCS class scores (1.95±0.80 in cases and 2.63±0.69 in controls; P<0.0001) and NYHA class scores (1.95±0.80 in cases vs. 2.48±0.59 in controls; P<0.001). In the control group, there was no improvement in angina class, functional class and exercise time. CONCLUSION: The present study shows that CSWT application to the ischemic myocardium in patients with refractory angina pectoris improved symptoms and reduced the severity of ischemic areas at 6 months after CSWT treatment compared with the baseline. No side effects were observed with this therapy. |
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Waqar H Kazmi; Syed Z Rasheed; Saeed Ahmed; Mohammad Saadat; Saqib Altaf; Abdus Samad |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-9-22 |
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Title: Coronary artery disease Volume: - ISSN: 1473-5830 ISO Abbreviation: Coron. Artery Dis. Publication Date: 2012 Sep |
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Created Date: 2012-9-26 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9011445 Medline TA: Coron Artery Dis Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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aKarachi Medical and Dental College bKarachi Institute of Heart Diseases cUniversal Research Group (URG), Karachi, Pakistan. |
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