St. Vincent’s encourages heart failure patients to consider new system

BRIDGEPORT — St. Vincent’s Medical Center can now help those with heart failure better manage their health with a new implantable, wireless monitoring sensor. The heart failure system — called CardioMEMS HF System — is the first and only FDA-approved heart failure monitoring device that has been proven to reduce re-admissions to hospitals when used to manage this issue, a press release said. The system has a sensor that is implanted in the patient’s pulmonary artery during a minimally invasive surgical procedure, the press release said. The sensor used in the system does not require batteries. Weight and blood pressure changes are typically how patients recognize worsening heart failure.

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