{"id":12419,"date":"2025-07-18T11:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/education\/shockwave-reducer-sharons-patient-story\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:37:35","slug":"shockwave-reducer-sharons-patient-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/education\/shockwave-reducer-sharons-patient-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Shockwave Reducer: Sharon&#8217;s Patient Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"block_55d8440bb3b23ad3243bb625096b5949\" class=\"block block--wysiwyg wysiwyg_styles u-bgColorNone container\">\n\t<div class=\"u-wysiwyg u-animation\">\n\t\t<p>Meet Sharon, a female patient from Oxfordshire, UK whose angina symptoms caused her to take lots of time off work from her job as a community care assistant. The unpredictability of her angina symptoms also impacted her social life and ability to walk any distance.<\/p>\n<p>Cardiologist Dr. Jeremy Langrish (John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK) suggested the Shockwave Reducer as a treatment solution, and now, Sharon is back to work and spending time with friends and family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video\"><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LfhkeA7qCOg?si=io_5Msbw3q4zqBWo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n<section\n\tid=\"block_dde4e195ae7dbfdd2af1c8d69743efa4\"\n\tclass=\"block block--testimonial text_colors \"\n\taria-labelledby=\"testimonial-title-block_dde4e195ae7dbfdd2af1c8d69743efa4\">\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_dde4e195ae7dbfdd2af1c8d69743efa4\" 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>It\u2019s changed my life with regards to my friends and family. Because now I can go out much more\u2026 huge difference.<\/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\tSharon, 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_06a071bcd1df28fad0f97ec6a6bd955c\" 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\">The physicians featured are paid consultants of Shockwave Medical. Views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Shockwave Medical.<\/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 Sharon, a female patient from Oxfordshire, UK whose angina symptoms caused her to take lots of time off work from her job as a community care assistant, and hear about how Shockwave Reducer helped her get back to her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":[403],"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-12419","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-case-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\/12419","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=12419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"disease-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disease-state?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"education-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education-topic?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"product-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-tag?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=12419"},{"taxonomy":"technology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shockwavemedical.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/technology?post=12419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}