Therapeutic potentials of sound waves in cardiovascular medicine: further important evidence

Graphical AbstractTherapeutic potentials of sound wave therapies with shock wave (SW) and low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS). The SW and LIPUS therapies could activate self-healing abilities depending on disease-specific conditions, including angiogenesis in ischaemic tissue, lymph-angiogenesis in oedematous tissue, neurogenesis in damaged nervous tissue, and others. These sound therapies appear to have broad indications for the brain, heart, kidney and peripheral arteries in cardiovascular medicine. AMI, acute myocardial infarction; HFpEF, heart failure with preserved LV ejection fraction.Open in new tabDownload slide