"Sleeve" Implant Helps Reverse Enlarged Hearts
A mesh "sleeve" surgically wrapped around the heart has shown promise for helping people with heart failure.
Manufacturers of the new device, the Acorn CorCap Cardiac Support Device, will be filing for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval in the first quarter of 2005, and the sleeve has been receiving quite a bit of comment at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA) in New Orleans.