Effect of Enhanced External Counterpulsation

Exclusion Criteria

• •patients with lower limb deep venous thrombosis and active thrombophlebitis
• •patients with moderate to severe valvular heart disease, especially those with aortic insufficiency and/or stenosis
• •patients with moderate to severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (mean pulmonary arterial pressure \>50 mmHg)
• •patients with aortic, cerebral or dissecting aneurysms
• •patients with uncontrolled hypertension (\>180/110 mmHg)
• •patients with decompensated heart failure (cardiac function of grade IV)
• •patients with arrhythmia that might interfere with the electrocardiographic gating function of the EECP device
• •patients with haemorrhagic diseases or obvious bleeding tendencies
• •patients with infected lesions in their limbs that may affect EECP
• •pregnant women
• •patients with ventricular aneurysm and mural thrombus detected through echocardiography