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.
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 ...
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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 ...
TCTMD

Cardiac Contractility Modulator as an Option for Advanced Heart Failure Patients Dependent on Low Dose inotropes

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 ...
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 ...
News Medical

Mutation in a ribosomal protein leads to impaired cardiac contractility in mice

A team of researchers have discovered that a mutation in a ribosomal protein found specifically in heart and skeletal muscle leads to impaired cardiac contractility in mice. The mutation was found to ...
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 ...