Do you:

• Remember a time when you could do more?
• Get short of breath when you climb stairs?
• Get tired more easily than you used to?
• Keep nitroglycerin handy in case you have an angina attack?

EECP (Enhanced External Counterpulsation) is:

• clincally proven to be as effective as bypass surgery, angioplasty, and stents
• FDA-approved, Medicare-approved and covered by insurance
• the only non-invasive treatment for coronary artery disease, angina, and congestive heart failure
• offered by leading medical centers including the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and right here in the Delaware Valley by Debra Braverman, M.D., a nationally recognized expert in the treatment

How does it work?
EECP improves the flow of healthy, oxygenated blood to the heart by opening or forming small (collateral) blood vessels, which create natural bypasses around narrowed or blocked arteries. In doing so, EECP:

• reduces or eliminates angina
• increases energy and stamina
• returns patients to activities they thought they had given up forever

Listen to a message from Dr. Braverman about EECP.  (Windows Media Player is required to listen. Click here to download a free copy.)

• You lie comfortably on a special bed, and a series of blood pressure cuffs are wrapped around your legs.

• An EKG triggers the cuffs to inflate and deflate in sync with your own heart beat, pumping healthy blood throughout your body and taking a load off your heart.
• During the heart's resting phase, when it normally receives its supply of blood, the cuffs inflate, pushing oxygen-rich blood toward your heart.
• Just before your heart begins to pump again, the cuffs rapidly deflate and blood leaves your heart without the muscle having to work as hard.
• Most patients read, listen to music, or even sleep during the hour-long treatment.
• Each treatment is 60 minutes long, and you come for 35 treatments in total.

How effective is it?
Studies on EECP show most patients:

• significantly improve or completely eliminate their symptoms (angina)
• significantly increase their stamina, exercise tolerance, and quality of life
• reduce or eliminate their use of nitroglycerin and other medications

• experience these benefits for as long as 3-5 years, as shown on stress thallium tests that illustrate the improved blood flow to the heart muscle
• one study found that patients do just as well five years after EECP as those who have surgery
  
• are less likely than bypass and angioplasty patients to go to the emergency room, require hospital stays, and undergo additional surgical procedures

Who benefits from EECP Treatment?
Nearly everyone with coronary artery disease, angina, or congestive heart failure can benefit from EECP. It is particularly well-suited to people who:

• Have already had angioplasty,
  stents, or bypass surgery, but their
  heart disease symptoms have
  returned or persisted.
• Are not candidates for surgery due
  to other medical conditions

• Do not want to undergo surgery

• Are diabetic

• Have small vessels (often women)

• Rely on medications or curtail their
  activities to avoid angina and other heart disease symptoms

Where else is EECP performed?
EECP is performed at more than 600 locations throughout the U.S., as well as around the world, including: Argentina, Canada, Columbia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Saudia Arabia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Here is a partial list of U.S. facilities that perform EECP:

Christ Hospital and Medical Ctr. Univ. of California at San Diego Texas Heart Institute Univ. of California at San Francisco JFK Medical Center, Atlantis, FL Univ. of Florida at Gainesville Kaiser Permanente of Denver Univ. of New York at Stony Brook The Miami Heart Institute

The Mayo Clinic The Cleveland Clinic Beth Israel Medical Center, New York City Johns Hopkins Medical Center The Ochsner Foundation Hosptal University of Pittsburgh University Hospital UMDNJ/NJ Medical School University of Virginia Emory University

Find out what thousands
of heart disease sufferers have already discovered. They are "living again," thanks to EECP.
Call 215-342-2100 to make an appointment for a consultation with Dr. Braverman.