• Medicina clinica · Jan 2021

    Case Reports

    A new option for monitoring heart failure. First experience in Spain with CardioMEMS.

    • Pau Codina, Omar Abdul-Jawad Altisent, Evelyn Santiago-Vacas, Mar Domingo, Josep Lupón, and Antoni Bayes-Genis.
    • Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain.
    • Med Clin (Barc). 2021 Jan 8; 156 (1): 26-28.

    IntroductionThe CardioMEMS device is inserted into the pulmonary artery and allows monitorization of pulmonary artery pressure in heart failure patients. Previous studies have shown a reduction in hospitalizations for heart failure and an improvement in quality of life in the group of patients monitored with the device.Patients And MethodsEleven patients managed in a multidisciplinary heart failure clinic implanted with the sensor were consecutively included from June 2019 to February 2020. This is the first experience with a cardioMEMS device published in Spain.ResultsThe device was successfully implanted in all cases without severe complications or sensor failures, allowing precise adjustment of medical treatment that led to very few heart failure readmissions.DiscussionWireless pulmonary artery pressure monitoring will probably become an essential component in the management of selected HF patients.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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