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DOI
10.4330/wjc.v9.i1.21
Journal Title
World Journal of Cardiology
First Page
21
Last Page
26
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Department
Medicine
Abstract
Heart failure (HF) is an emerging epidemic associate with significant morbidity, mortality, and health care expenditure. Although there were major advances in pharmacologic and device based therapies for the management of HF, mortality of this condition remains high. Accurate monitoring of HF patients for exacerbations is very important to reduce recurrent hospitalizations and its associated complications. With the failure of clinical signs, tele-monitoring, and laboratory bio-markers to function as early markers of HF exacerbations, more sophisticated techniques were sought to accurately predict the circulatory status in HF patients in order to execute timely pharmacological intervention to reduce frequent hospitalizations. CardioMEMSTM (St. Jude Medical, Inc., Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an implantable, wireless pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP) monitoring system which transmits the patient's continuous PAPs to the treating health care provider in the ambulatory setting. PAP-guided medical therapy modification has been shown to significantly reduce HF-related hospitalization and overall mortality. In advanced stages of HF, wireless access to hemodynamic information correlated with earlier left ventricular assist device implantation and shorter time to heart transplantation.
Recommended Citation
Yandrapalli, S., Raza, A., Tariq, S., & Aronow, W. (2017). Ambulatory Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring in Advanced Heart Failure Patients. World Journal of Cardiology, 9 (1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.4330/wjc.v9.i1.21
Publisher's Statement
Originally published in World Journal of Cardiology 2017; 9(1): 21-26. The original material can be found here.
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