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16685131

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-11-22
pubmed:abstractText
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a recently approved treatment modality for patients with angina and heart failure. However, the efficacy of EECP on left ventricular (LV) function has not been well established. The study was aimed to determine whether EECP leads to an improvement in objective parameters of LV function. Patients with coronary artery disease (n = 10) who showed evidence of stress-induced myocardial ischemia despite conventional medical or surgical therapies were enrolled and received EECP therapy for a total of 35 h. The therapeutic effects of EECP were examined by thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography (201Tl-SPECT). Compared with baseline, the lung/heart ratio at stress decreased significantly from 0.40 +/- 0.08 to 0.35 +/- 0.08 (p = 0.001) at 1 month and 0.33 +/- 0.10 (p = 0.03) at 6 months following EECP treatment. LV ejection fraction marginally improved from 56.7 +/- 7.7% to 57.6 +/- 5.9% (p = 0.382) at 1 month and to 60.1 +/- 8.6% (p = 0.062) at 6 months after EECP therapy, although not statistically significant. We concluded that EECP improved LV function, shown as the reduction of lung/heart ratio at stress, in patients with coronary artery disease, up to 6 months after EECP treatment.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0008-6312
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
2006 S. Karger AG, Basel
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
106
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
237-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Enhanced external counterpulsation reduces lung/heart ratio at stress in patients with coronary artery disease.
pubmed:affiliation
National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. cmlee@ha.mc.ntu.edu.tw
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial