CardioMEMS™: a tool for remote hemodynamic monitoring of chronic heart failure patients.

Chronic heart failure, a disease in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood, affects millions of people worldwide and is associated with high rates of illness and death. The main problem of patients with chronic heart failure is the body's storage of excess fluid that leads to hospital admissions. These hospital admissions are expensive and bad in the long run. Doctors need to discover excess fluid as early as possible, preferably from a distance, so that patients can be kept out of the hospital. Unfortunately, methods for this are missing. The CardioMEMS™ HF system, a pressure sensor, was developed to watch for changes in a patient's fluid state from a distance. This article gives thorough information about the CardioMEMS HF system.