Catheter-Delivered Pump Uses Innovative Approach to Fight Heart Failure

Walking up the stairs to your room one evening, you stop to catch your breath and think “I haven't always felt this tired.” Week by week, you start to notice even going out to get the mail is exhausting. Eventually, you can't keep up with your kids without being completely worn out. A few months go by. One night, you wake up gasping for air, feeling like you are drowning despite being asleep just moments before. This is the normal progression of heart failure, a disease that results in over 1 million hospitalizations in the United States each year.1