INTRODUCTION Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a noninvasive circulatory assist device that has been recently emerged as a treatment option for refractory angina or left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. The aims of this study were to examine the effects of EECP on the elecrocardiographic parameters and the heart rate variability indices of patients with the coronary heart disease and fu...

Cardiovascular disease is associated with chronic low-level inflammation, as evidenced by elevated circulating proinflammatory cytokines. Experimental evidence suggests that inflammation can be suppressed under conditions of high shear stress. This study was conducted to examine the effects of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP), a noninvasive therapy that increases endothelial shear stre...

BACKGROUND The complicated concept of quality of life (QOL) has been considered as an important criterion for health outcomes in chronic diseases, such as heart disease, in recent years. The aim of this study was to evaluate the QOL of patients with angina pectoris after treatment with enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP). MATERIALS AND METHODS This quasi-experimental study was conducted...

In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), sensor nodes have limitations of energy, so the lifetime of the network is directly proportional to energy factor. All kinds of obstacles exist in the sensing field. Hence the challenge is to determine the obstacle avoiding shortest path with energy efficient clustering. EECP (Energy Efficient Clustering using PEGASIS) presents energy efficient routing by reduc...

background patients with severe refractory cardiac angina who are not candidates for any form of invasive treatment and are already on optimal medical therapy have few therapeutic options. enhanced external counter pulsation (eecp) offers an alternative palliative and possibly therapeutic option for these patients. eecp achieves this by inducing hemodynamic effects much similar to those of the ...

BACKGROUND Enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) is a noninvasive device that uses three pairs of sequentially inflated pneumatic cuffs applied to the lower extremities and synchronized with the heart beat to provide diastolic augmentation, increase coronary blood pressure and flow, venous return and cardiac output, and decrease afterload. HYPOTHESIS This study examines the safety and eff...

To determine the extent to which electrophysiologic tests of the afferent visual pathway are affected by vitrectomy, the procedure was performed in 15 eyes of 11 adult Dutch-belted rabbits. An electroretinogram (ERG), visually evoked cortical potential (VECP), and electrically evoked cortical potential (EECP) were obtained preoperatively and sequentially after surgery. For electrical stimulatio...

OBJECTIVES The PEECH (Prospective Evaluation of Enhanced External Counterpulsation in Congestive Heart Failure) study assessed the benefits of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) in the treatment of patients with mild-to-moderate heart failure (HF). BACKGROUND Enhanced external counterpulsation reduced angina symptoms and extended time to exercise-induced ischemia in patients with coron...

We study the well-posedness of biological models with AHL-dependent cell mobility on engineered Escherichia coli populations. For kinetic model proposed by Xue-Xue-Tang recently [17], local existence for large initial data is proved first. Furthermore, positivity and conservation laws density nutrient concentration assumptions (1.24) (1.26) are justified. Based these properties, it can be exten...