Procyrion, a company based in Houston, Texas, has developed and is working on bringing to market a new intra-aortic support pump that may help people with heart failure “reduce afterload, reduce workload of the heart, and increase end-organ perfusion,” according to the company. The device was originally envisioned by Dr. Reynolds M. Delgado, III, a cardiologist and Medical Director of Mechanical Support Devices in Heart Failure at the Texas Heart Institute. At 6mm in diameter, the Aortix device is narrower than a common pencil, and is delivered via a catheter in a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that takes about ten minutes to complete.
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