{"id":130504,"date":"2017-10-17T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=130504"},"modified":"2017-10-17T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:15:31","slug":"tiny-microchip-monitoring-heart-failure-patients-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/10\/tiny-microchip-monitoring-heart-failure-patients-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Microchip Monitoring Heart Failure Patients at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

UConn Health\u2019s Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center<\/a> is now using a tiny, implantable sensor to wirelessly monitor its heart failure patients daily and from afar.<\/p>\n

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The miniature CardioMEMS device is minimally invasively implanted into a patient’s pulmonary artery to immediately detect any early rise in pressure<\/em> that could signal worsening heart failure <\/em>(Image by Abbott).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cImagine a time when you could implant a sensor into the pulmonary artery that would enable you to monitor at will the pressure exerted by the heart on the lungs,\u201d said Dr. Michael Azrin<\/a>, director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory and interventional cardiology\u00a0at UConn Health. \u201cWell, that time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The dime-sized sensor is minimally invasively implanted during a brief cardiac catheterization procedure to detect any future increases in pulmonary artery pressure. By remotely measuring this pressure cardiologists and medical teams are now able to learn in real-time if a patient\u2019s heart failure is worsening before a patient\u2019s symptoms of fluid retention, weight gain or elevated blood pressure arise.<\/p>\n

UConn Health cardiologists are using the advanced technology to proactively enhance the monitoring of each heart failure patient\u2019s chronic symptoms, reduce their chances of being readmitted to the hospital, adjust their medication levels rapidly when needed, and most importantly improve the quality of their daily life.<\/p>\n

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This month Dr. Michael Azrin and his team performing the first CardioMEMS sensor implant at the Cardiac Cath Lab of UConn Health (UConn Health\/Lauren Woods).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“One of the biggest challenges for me, as a doctor\u00a0for many\u00a0heart failure patients, is to figure out what’s happening inside the body. How is the heart pumping? How are the lungs?\u201d said Dr. Jason Ryan<\/a>, director of UConn Health\u2019s Heart Failure Center. \u201cThe new device gives me this information every day from the patient’s home. This is a huge leap forward in technology and will help me improve the lives of my heart failure patients.”<\/p>\n

Today, nearly 6 million American\u2019s are living with heart failure, the heart muscle\u2019s inability to pump enough blood to meet the body\u2019s full demands, and 900,000 new cases are expected to be diagnosed this year.<\/p>\n

The condition causes fluid retention and shortness of breath that often sends many heart failure patients to emergency rooms. In fact, heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization for those over age 65.<\/p>\n

However, this first-of-its-kind and FDA-approved CardioMEMS HF System has been shown to significantly reduce the likelihood of heart failure patient hospitalization by up to 37 percent.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the Calhoun Cardiology Center, visit here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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