{"id":12417,"date":"2025-07-18T11:20:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/education\/shockwave-reducer-kunigundes-patient-story\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:32:47","slug":"shockwave-reducer-kunigundes-patient-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/education\/shockwave-reducer-kunigundes-patient-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Shockwave Reducer: Kunigunde&#8217;s Patient Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"block_6165806a540c3b3ad616056be0141b36\" class=\"block block--wysiwyg wysiwyg_styles u-bgColorNone container\">\n\t<div class=\"u-wysiwyg u-animation\">\n\t\t<p>Meet Kunigunde Grohmann, a 78-year-old female patient who is suffering from refractory angina despite a long history of cardiac procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Kunigunde\u2019s general practitioner referred her to Prof. Tommaso Gori (Univ. Medical Centre of Mainz, Germany),\u00a0who chose Shockwave Reducer therapy to address her symptoms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6Jj6wtbovY?si=AUljKDR9gmrGhl6h\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<section\n\tid=\"block_9328ebc0aa9199e28c440816b8fecd3d\"\n\tclass=\"block block--testimonial text_colors \"\n\taria-labelledby=\"testimonial-title-block_9328ebc0aa9199e28c440816b8fecd3d\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-and-image\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-and-author\">\n\t\t\t\t<h2 id=\"testimonial-title-block_9328ebc0aa9199e28c440816b8fecd3d\" class=\"sr-only\">Testimonial<\/h2> <!-- Visually hidden heading for accessibility -->\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"quote\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-quotation-symbol\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u201c<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"quote-quotation-text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I\u2019m glad I did this and I think it still helps me. Here at home I noticed that immediately and it was a relief to be able to walk again without stopping every five minutes.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"author-and-link\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKunigunde Grohmann, Shockwave Reducer patient\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section id=\"block_3b76b73111bdfd8f879ce515f2c1a7a9\" class=\"block block--wysiwyg wysiwyg_styles u-bgColorNone container\">\n\t<div class=\"u-wysiwyg u-animation\">\n\t\t<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"legal_copy\">Individual patient stories. Results may vary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legal_copy\">Shockwave Reducer is commercially available in select European countries and has been implanted in over 3,500 patients. It is currently under clinical investigation in the U.S. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legal_copy\">CAUTION:\u202fIn the United States, Shockwave Reducer is an investigational device, limited by United States law to investigational use. Shockwave Reducer is subject of investigational testing and is being studied in the COSIRA-II trial in Canada. Shockwave Reducer is commercially available in certain countries outside the U.S. and Canada. Please contact your local representative for specific country availability. Prior to use, please reference the Instructions for Use for more information on warnings, precautions and adverse events:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ifu.sw-reducer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ifu.sw-reducer.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Kunigunde Grohmann, a 78-year-old female patient with a history of asthma and cardiac procedures, and how Shockwave Reducer helped relieve her refractory angina symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[210],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"disease-state":[161,181],"education-topic":[189],"product-tag":[289],"specialty":[297,330,346],"technology":[322],"class_list":["post-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert","disease-state-coronary-artery-disease-de","disease-state-refractory-angina-de","education-topic-case-reviews-de","format-video-de","product-tag-shockwave-reducer-de","specialty-fellows-residents-de","specialty-interventional-cardiologists-de","specialty-vascular-surgeons-de","technology-coronary-sinus-reduction-de"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"disease-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disease-state?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"education-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education-topic?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"product-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-tag?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}