MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--New research shows cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduced the time to first heart failure hospitalization or death by nearly half in patients with mild heart failure, and devices equipped with OptiVol® Fluid Status Monitoring identified patients who were at a significantly higher risk (3.5 times) of having a heart failure event in the near future. The findings from the REVERSE (Resynchronization Reverses Remodeling in Systolic Left Ventricular Dysfunction) and PARTNERS HF (Multi-site Program to Access and Review Trending Information and Evaluate Correlation to Symptoms in Patients with Heart Failure) trials, both sponsored by Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), were presented today as late breaking clinical trials during the 12th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA) in Toronto, and demonstrate the value of CRT and device diagnostics in managing heart failure patients and their hospitalizations.
