Implantable Device May Help Manage Congestive Heart Failure Symptoms
Friday, October 10, 2008 - 20:28
in Health & Medicine
A new study aims to improve the heart's pumping action and help to manage congestive heart failure symptoms. The US PARACHUTE trial tests the effectiveness of placing a small device in the left ventricle, or main pumping chamber of the heart. Physicians recently implanted the sixth person in the United States with the device.