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. 2017 Apr 12;15:11. doi: 10.1186/s12947-017-0102-y

Table 2.

Common characteristics of selected human studies of cardiac shock wave therapy

Author (year) Study population Stress test, used to detect myocardial ischemia Patients, Total control (n) Age (years) Sex, male, n (%) Follow up, months
Non-controlled studies
 Caspari G. H. et al. (1999) [19] Stable angina SPECT 9/- 65 ± 7 nd 6d
 Gutersohn A. et al. (2003) [51] Stable angina SPECT, ET 25/- 66 ± 7.3 nd 6d
 Gutersohn A. et al. (2005) [52] Stable angina SPECT 14/- 66 nd 12e
 Gutersohn A. et al. (2006) [53] Stable angina SPECT 23/- 66 nd 60d
 Fukumoto Y.et al. (2006) [54] Stable angina ET, SPECT 9/- 67.8 5 (55.5%) 12d
 Lyadov K. et al. (2006) [55] Stable angina DSE, CPET 13/- 59.6 ± 6.9 11 (85%) 1e
 Naber C. et al. (2007) [56] Stable angina SPECT 25/- 63.8 ± 8.2 nd 3d
 KhattabA.A. et al. (2007) [57] Stable angina SPECT 10/- nd nd 1d
 Naber C. et al. (2008) [58] Stable angina SPECT 24/- 63.8 ± 8.2 18 (75%) 3d
 Takayama T. et al. (2008) [28] Stable angina SPECT 17/- 67.5 17 (100%) 6d
 Wang Y. et al. (2010) [59] Stable angina DSE, SPECT 9/- 63.7 ± 5.7 9 (100%) 1d
 Faber L. et al. (2010) [60] Stable angina PET, CPET 16/- 66 ± 10 nd 1d
 Vainer J. et al. (2010) [61] Stable angina ET, SPECT 22/- 69 ± 7 18 (81.8%) 4d
 Vasyuk Y. A. et al. (2010) [25] Ischemic HF DSE, SPECT 24/- 63.3 ± 6.1 20 (83.3%) 6d
 Alunni G. et al. (2011) [62] Stable angina SPECT 16/- 71 ± 5.6 12 (80%) 12
 Vainer J. et al. (2012) [63] Stable angina SPECT 50/- 68 ± 9 40 (80%) 4d
 Alunni G. et al. (2013) [64] Stable angina SPECT 25/- nd nd 6d
 Gabrusenko S.A. et al. (2013) [29] Stable angina SPECT 17/- 67.4 ± 8.6 14 (82.4%) 1e
 Zuoziene G. et al. (2013) [65] Stable angina DSE, SPECT 40/- 67.7 ± 7 30 (75%) 3d
 Prinz C. et al. (2013) [66] Stable angina ET, PET 43/- 67 ± 10 nd 1d
 Cassar A. et al. (2014) [27] Stable angina ET, SPECT 15/- 65.0 ± 12.1 13 (86.7) 4d
 Faber L. et al. (2014) [67] Stable angina PET 47/- 67 ± 10 nd 1,5d
 Prasad M. et al. (2015) [68] Stable angina SPECT, ET 111/- 62.9 ± 10.9 98 (83.7) 3–6e
 Kaller M. et al. (2015) [49] Stable angina PET, ET 21/- 65 ± 10 13 (61.9%) 1.5–2d
 Cai HY et al. (2015) [30] Stable angina ET 26/- 63 ± 10 23 (88.5%) 4d
 Liu BY et al. (2015) [69] Stable angina SPECT 11/- nd nd 12d
 Vainer J. et al. (2016) [70] Stable angina ET, SPECT 33/- 69.7 ± 8 27 (82%) 4d
Non-randomized, controlled studies
 Kikuchi Y. et al. (2010)c [31] Stable angina CPET 8/8 70 ± 3 5 (62.5%) 3d
 Kazmi W.H. et al. (2012) [71] Stable angina SPECT 86/43 57.7 ± 10.5 73 (84.5%) 6d
 Alunni G. et al. (2014) [72] Stable angina SPECT 72/29 70 ± 5.3 60 (83.3%) 6d
 Nirala S. et al. (2016) [73] Stable angina ET, DSE 52/11 63.4 ± 10.8 43 (82.7%) 72d
Randomized, controlled studies
 Peng Y.Z. et al. (2012) [26] Ischemic HF SPECT 50/nd nd nd 1d
 Wang Y. et al. (2012)a [24] Stable angina DSE, SPECT 55/14 64.1 ± 9.8 47 (85%) 12e
 Zhao L. et al. (2015)b [74] Stable angina SPECT, ET 87/27 66.8 ± 8.4 68 (78%) 12e
Randomized, placebo controlled studies
 Schmid J.P. et al. (2006) [75] Stable angina SPECT 15/8 68 ± 8 14 (60%) 3d
 Yang P. et al. (2012)a [76] Stable angina SPECT 45/20 67 ± 8.3 36 (80%) 3e
 Leibowitz D. et al. (2012)a [77] Stable angina ET, SPECT 28/10 63.3 ± 9.2 24 (85.7%) 3d
 Schmid J.P. et al. (2013) [78] Stable angina CPET 21/10 68.2 ± 8.3 19 (90.5%) 3d
 Yang P. et al. (2013)a [79] Stable angina SPECT 25/11 65.1 ± 8.5 18 (72%) 6d

Continuous variables were expressed as mean value ± standard deviation (SD), whereas categorical variables were expressed as percentages

ET ECG Exercise test, CPET cardiopulmonary exercise test, DSE dobutamine stress echocardiography, PET positron emission tomography, SPECT single photon emission computed tomography; nd = no data; adouble blind; bsingle blind; cdouble blind, placebo controlled, crossover design; dtime after the end of treatment (treatment ends at 9th treatment week); etime from the treatment initiation