Ohio State participated in trial confirming efficacy of novel heart failure treatment
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center randomized a patient in a clinical trial confirming the clinical benefit of a device designed to treat diastolic heart failure. The first patient was randomized Thursday in the multicenter, prospective, randomized, double blinded study (RESPONDER-HF) at Ohio State’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.
Ohio State randomized patients in the two prior clinical trials evaluating whether a dime-size implant relieved the high pressure and associated heart failure symptoms, created by blood backing up from the heart into the lungs.
During the procedure, doctors insert a catheter into a vein in the groin to access the heart. The catheter creates a small path between the left and right upper chambers of the heart. Doctors insert the tiny, inter-atrial shunt device to keep the path open to divert some of the blood from the high pressure left atrial chamber to the low-pressure right atrial chamber. This lowers pressure in the left upper chamber, decreasing pressure in the lungs and improving symptoms of heart failure for some patients.
