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About Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitoring
What is Pulmonary Artery (PA) Pressure?
Each time blood passes through your heart, the right ventricle of your heart (the chambers on the lower right side) pump blood to your lungs through a large blood vessel. That large blood vessel is the pulmonary artery.
The blood pressure of your pulmonary artery reflects the amount of force your heart is exerting to pump blood from your heart to your lungs. If your heart has to work harder to pump that blood, then your pulmonary artery (PA) pressure goes up.
What is Pulmonary Artery Monitoring for Heart Failure?
Pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) monitoring is a way to track early signs of worsening heart failure. It involves a small, implantable sensor that measures pressure inside the pulmonary artery. The pulmonary artery is the blood vessel that carries blood from your heart to your lungs. By detecting changes in pressure before symptoms appear, doctors can adjust your treatment sooner to help prevent hospitalizations and manage heart failure more effectively, all from the comfort of your home.1
How is a Pulmonary Artery Pressure Monitor Implanted?
The monitor is placed during a common right heart catheterization, typically in a hospital. Most people go home the same day. Here’s how it works:
- A small tube is inserted into a vein in your neck or groin
- The sensor is guided into your pulmonary artery through the tube
- It stays in place and doesn’t require batteries or wires
- At home, you lie on a special reader to take daily readings
- These readings are sent to your doctor to help manage your heart failure
How Does the CardioMEMS HF System Work?
The CardioMEMS™ HF System gives your doctor insight into how your heart failure is progressing at home, wherever you are, without an office visit. By monitoring changes in pressure inside your pulmonary artery, your care team can identify signs of worsening heart failure early and adjust treatment before symptoms get worse. It’s a proactive way for you to take an active role in managing your heart failure and reduce the chances of unexpected hospital visits.2
What are the Benefits of the CardioMEMS HF System?
CardioMEMS helps you stay ahead of your heart failure symptoms by giving your care team daily insights into your condition. Regularly monitoring your condition may lead to treatment decisions and fewer hospital visits.2
- It may help reduce heart failure-related hospitalizations2
- Help your doctor adjust your treatment before your heart failure gets worse2
- Simple, daily use from the comfort of your home
- No batteries or maintenance required
- Helps you and your care team stay connected between appointments
What does Pulmonary Artery Pressure Tell Your Doctor about Heart Failure?
Changes in pulmonary artery pressure are an early sign that heart failure may be getting worse. If your doctor can see these changes early, they can make adjustments to your care or medications to help manage your condition.1
Other signs of worsening heart failure like shortness of breath or swelling, often appear too late to prevent hospital visits. That's why monitoring pulmonary artery pressure can be an important tool in staying ahead of symptoms.1
How can you Manage Heart Failure with Remote Monitoring?
Remote monitoring is a way to manage heart failure from the comfort of your home. It helps you and your doctor track your condition every day, even between visits. The information from your daily readings gives your care team a clearer picture of how you're doing and helps them adjust your treatment if needed. Catching problems early can prevent symptoms from getting worse and may help you avoid an unexpected trip to the hospital.1
Monitoring pulmonary pressure
References
- Adamson PB. Pathophysiology of the transition from chronic compensated and acute decompensated heart failure: new insights from continuous monitoring devices. Current Heart Failure Reports. 2009;6(4):287-292. doi:10.1007/s11897-009-0039-z
- Brugts JJ, Radhoe SP, Clephas PRD, et al. Remote haemodynamic monitoring of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with chronic heart failure (MONITOR-HF): a randomised clinical trial [published correction appears in The Lancet. 2023;401(10394:2112]. The Lancet. 2023;401(10394):2113-2123. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00923-6.
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