Fricchione G L, Jaghab K, Lawson W, Hui J C, Jandorf L, Zheng Z S, Cohn P F, Soroff H
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA.
Psychosomatics. 1995 Sep-Oct;36(5):494-7. doi: 10.1016/S0033-3182(95)71631-0.
Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a noninvasive pantaloon device designed to increase coronary artery flow in the treatment of angina. This pilot study, conducted in 1992-1993, which used psychosocial testing pre- and posttreatment, yielded data suggesting that EECP is well tolerated psychosocially and produces improvement in the anginal syndrome. More comprehensive research is under way to test these preliminary conclusions.