Therapy apparatus for treating conditions of the heart and heart-proximate vessels

A therapy apparatus for treating cardiovascular conditions comprising:

• an ultrasound source having means for generating therapeutic ultrasound waves having a therapeutically effective region and having an intensity for producing tissue modifications by thermal interaction with tissue located in said therapeutically effective region, said ultrasound source having dimensions adapted for intrathoracically applying said ultrasound source in a subject, and said therapeutic ultrasound source containing a plurality of spatially separated therapeutic ultrasound transducers mechanically connected in a linear structure and means for spatially orienting said therapeutic ultrasound transducers relative to each other for causing therapeutic ultrasound waves emitted by each therapeutic ultrasound transducer to be superimposed at a location to be treated.