Endocardial cryotherapy as a novel strategy of improving myocardial perfusion in a patient with severe coronary artery disease.
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.
D000328:Adult; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D017679:Cryotherapy; D004699:Endocardium / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D018487:Ventricular Dysfunction, Left / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy