PHILADELPHIA -- Heart failure is a major, and costly, medical problem. The mean cost for one hospital stay is $15,000, and many patients are in the hospital again and again. But a tiny device is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In late May, the FDA approved the CardioMEMS HF System for the measurement of pulmonary artery pressure and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — UofL Health – Heart Hospital is celebrating another milestone, completing the 200th CardioMEMS HF System implantation procedure. According to a media release, the device is a ...

Nearly 6.7 million adults in the U.S. have heart failure, with prevalence expected to rise to 8.5 million by 20301,2. While heart failure is a chronic, progressive disease, advances in technology are ...

Seventeen months ago, Donald Cortner, suffering from end-stage heart failure, was a man struggling to breathe, walk, live. In fact, he had been removed from Cleveland Clinic’s heart transplant list ...

Congestive heart failure. Hypertension. Peripheral neuropathy. Sciatica. You name the disorder, and Norman Marigney of Santa Rosa may have it. In fact, he’s been hospitalized four times in the past ...

HAMMOND ― Cypress Pointe Hospital has performed its first implant of a miniaturized, wireless monitoring sensor to manage heart failure while a patient is at home, a news release said. The CardioMEMs ...

The CHAMPION trial demonstrated a 58% reduction in all-cause hospital readmissions (hospitalization for any reason) and a significant 78% fall in HF hospital readmissions when patients were treated ...

The CardioMEMS HF System is proven to significantly reduce heart failure hospitalizations and improve quality of life in NYHA class III HF patients St. Jude Medical now intends to exercise its ...

CardioMEMS, a member of Georgia Tech’s Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), is pioneering a new breed of testing devices to monitor heart patients. Combining wireless communications ...

Boston Millennia Partners is pleased to announce that its portfolio company, CardioMEMS, Inc., an Atlanta based medical device company, has accepted a $60 million investment from and granted a $375 ...