Table 2 Common characteristics of selected human studies of cardiac shock wave therapy

 Caspari G. H. et al. (1999) [19]

Stable angina

SPECT

9/-

65 ± 7

nd

6^d

 Gutersohn A. et al. (2003) [51]

Stable angina

SPECT, ET

25/-

66 ± 7.3

nd

6^d

 Gutersohn A. et al. (2005) [52]

Stable angina

SPECT

14/-

66

nd

12^e

 Gutersohn A. et al. (2006) [53]

Stable angina

SPECT

23/-

66

nd

60^d

 Fukumoto Y.et al. (2006) [54]

Stable angina

ET, SPECT

9/-

67.8

5 (55.5%)

12^d

 Lyadov K. et al. (2006) [55]

Stable angina

DSE, CPET

13/-

59.6 ± 6.9

11 (85%)

1^e

 Naber C. et al. (2007) [56]

Stable angina

SPECT

25/-

63.8 ± 8.2

nd

3^d

 KhattabA.A. et al. (2007) [57]

Stable angina

SPECT

10/-

nd

nd

1^d

 Naber C. et al. (2008) [58]

Stable angina

SPECT

24/-

63.8 ± 8.2

18 (75%)

3^d

 Takayama T. et al. (2008) [28]

Stable angina

SPECT

17/-

67.5

17 (100%)

6^d

 Wang Y. et al. (2010) [59]

Stable angina

DSE, SPECT

9/-

63.7 ± 5.7

9 (100%)

1^d

 Faber L. et al. (2010) [60]

Stable angina

PET, CPET

16/-

66 ± 10

nd

1^d

 Vainer J. et al. (2010) [61]

Stable angina

ET, SPECT

22/-

69 ± 7

18 (81.8%)

4^d

 Vasyuk Y. A. et al. (2010) [25]

Ischemic HF

DSE, SPECT

24/-

63.3 ± 6.1

20 (83.3%)

6^d

 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%)

4^d

 Alunni G. et al. (2013) [64]

Stable angina

SPECT

25/-

nd

nd

6^d

 Gabrusenko S.A. et al. (2013) [29]

Stable angina

SPECT

17/-

67.4 ± 8.6

14 (82.4%)

1^e

 Zuoziene G. et al. (2013) [65]

Stable angina

DSE, SPECT

40/-

67.7 ± 7

30 (75%)

3^d

 Prinz C. et al. (2013) [66]

Stable angina

ET, PET

43/-

67 ± 10

nd

1^d

 Cassar A. et al. (2014) [27]

Stable angina

ET, SPECT

15/-

65.0 ± 12.1

13 (86.7)

4^d

 Faber L. et al. (2014) [67]

Stable angina

PET

47/-

67 ± 10

nd

1,5^d

 Prasad M. et al. (2015) [68]

Stable angina

SPECT, ET

111/-

62.9 ± 10.9

98 (83.7)

3–6^e

 Kaller M. et al. (2015) [49]

Stable angina

PET, ET

21/-

65 ± 10

13 (61.9%)

1.5–2^d

 Cai HY et al. (2015) [30]

Stable angina

ET

26/-

63 ± 10

23 (88.5%)

4^d

 Liu BY et al. (2015) [69]

Stable angina

SPECT

11/-

nd

nd

12^d

 Vainer J. et al. (2016) [70]

Stable angina

ET, SPECT

33/-

69.7 ± 8

27 (82%)

4^d

 Kikuchi Y. et al. (2010)^c [31]

Stable angina

CPET

8/8

70 ± 3

5 (62.5%)

3^d

 Kazmi W.H. et al. (2012) [71]

Stable angina

SPECT

86/43

57.7 ± 10.5

73 (84.5%)

6^d

 Alunni G. et al. (2014) [72]

Stable angina

SPECT

72/29

70 ± 5.3

60 (83.3%)

6^d

 Nirala S. et al. (2016) [73]

Stable angina

ET, DSE

52/11

63.4 ± 10.8

43 (82.7%)

72^d

 Peng Y.Z. et al. (2012) [26]

Ischemic HF

SPECT

50/nd

nd

nd

1^d

 Wang Y. et al. (2012)^a [24]

Stable angina

DSE, SPECT

55/14

64.1 ± 9.8

47 (85%)

12^e

 Zhao L. et al. (2015)^b [74]

Stable angina

SPECT, ET

87/27

66.8 ± 8.4

68 (78%)

12^e

 Schmid J.P. et al. (2006) [75]

Stable angina

SPECT

15/8

68 ± 8

14 (60%)

3^d

 Yang P. et al. (2012)^a [76]

Stable angina

SPECT

45/20

67 ± 8.3

36 (80%)

3^e

 Leibowitz D. et al. (2012)^a [77]

Stable angina

ET, SPECT

28/10

63.3 ± 9.2

24 (85.7%)

3^d

 Schmid J.P. et al. (2013) [78]

Stable angina

CPET

21/10

68.2 ± 8.3

19 (90.5%)

3^d

 Yang P. et al. (2013)^a [79]

Stable angina

SPECT

25/11

65.1 ± 8.5

18 (72%)

6^d