Endocardial cryotherapy as a novel strategy of improving myocardial perfusion in a patient with severe coronary artery disease

Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2003 Oct;60(2):229-32. doi: 10.1002/ccd.10621.

Abstract

Patients with intractable angina pectoris due to end-stage coronary artery disease who are not amenable to conventional revascularization provide a therapeutic challenge. We describe the first published case of a young patient with intractable coronary artery disease that was successfully treated by endocardial cryotherapy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Coronary Artery Disease / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronary Artery Disease / therapy*
  • Cryotherapy*
  • Endocardium / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocardial Reperfusion*
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / diagnostic imaging
  • Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / therapy