Who can benefit from EECP ?

• Those who have been advised bypass surgery and choose not to have it.
• Those who cannot afford the cost of bypass surgery
• Those who have other diseases which make them unfit for surgery eg. coexisting
  Diabetes Mellitus, Bronchial Asthma, Kidney failure, Thyroid disorders, old age i.e. more than 80 yrs.
• Those who have already had bypass surgery done a few years earlier and don't want to suffer
  the experience again.
• Those patients who cannot afford the exorbitant cost of angioplasty (upto Rs 3.75 lacs with
  two cipher stents and reopro).
• Those patients who have chest pain or breathlessness of cardiac origin and do not wish to undergo
  any further investigation can go for EECP directly.
• Patients whose stents have got blocked again.