A "life-changing" device helped save this Philadelphia-area woman with heart disease

A Philadelphia-area woman is among a growing number of younger women with cardiovascular disease. This device saved her life.
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Healthbeat 4: First MercyOne Siouxland patient receives Cardiac Contractility Modulation Therapy procedure

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Brad Hedlund has been in and out of appointments with cardiologists dealing with heart failure over the last decade. Hedlund explained his symptoms as “I had no energy. I had no ...
Kaleido Scope

TBX20 improves contractility and mitochondrial function during direct human cardiac reprogramming

Zhou’s study, "TBX20 improves contractility and mitochondrial function during direct human cardiac reprogramming," was recently published in Circulation. The most common cause of death worldwide is ...
WGRZ

New device helps patients with heart failure

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It is considered groundbreaking technology in Buffalo when it comes to heart health. Cardiac Contractility Modulation Therapy (CCM) is a device that can be implanted in patients. There ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Cardiogenic Shock

Cardiogenic shock is characterized by depression of cardiac function that leads to low blood pressure, coronary ischemia, and further decreased cardiac contractility resulting in tissue hypoxemia. The ...
BioWorld

AMA panel eyes CPT code for cardiac contractility modulation

The American Medical Association’s CPT editorial panel will meet May 1-3 to consider codes for several devices and services, but the most important of these might be the code for cardiac contractility ...
TCTMD

Cardiac Contractility Modulation Across the Spectrum of EFs

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...
AHA/ASA Journals

A Critical Contribution of Cardiac Myofibroblasts in Right Ventricular Failure and the Role of UCP2 SNPs in the Predisposition to RV Decompensation in Pulmonary Arterial ...

BACKGROUND: Right ventricular failure drives both morbidity and mortality in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but the mechanism of transition from compensated right ventricle (cRV) to ...