Can enhanced external counter pulsation as a non-invasive modality be useful in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy after coronary artery bypass grafting?

The Egyptian Heart Journal : (EHJ) : Official Bulletin of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology
Amr A Abdelwahab, Ayman M Elsaied

Abstract

Angina symptom in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery is a major challenging problem in practice. The choice among different treatment modalities available can be judged by different parameters especially measuring the risk/cost ratio to achieve the benefit. Enhanced external counter pulsation (EECP) is one of safest noninvasive modality for treatment of angina as well as it has an anti-failure effect. 42 patients with ICM after CABG were suffering from stable angina and were treated at Al-Hayat Cardiology Centre in Tanta City (ACC). 20 patients of them (group A) received 35 sessions of EECP plus their anti-ischemic and anti-failure treatment, while the other 22 patients (group B) received only medical treatment and were followed up for 3 months regarding their angina class, functional class, frequency of angina attack, frequency of sublingual nitrate and rate of rehospitalization when needed during follow up period. Despite both groups had nearly similar severity of symptoms regarding the CCS class and NYHA class, yet patients in group A experienced significant improvement in comparison to patients in group B (p-value = .005, p-value = .002 respectively), and this wa...Continue Reading

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