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Atrial Shunt Therapy For Heart Failure: An Update, William Gray
Atrial Shunt Therapy For Heart Failure: An Update, William Gray
Department of Medicine Faculty Papers
Transcatheter atrial shunt therapies, designed to dynamically lower left atrial (LA) pressure by shunting blood into the larger reservoir of the right atrium and central veins, have been developed as a novel treatment for heart failure (HF) over the past 10+ years. Several atrial shunt devices and procedures are currently in development with several pivotal randomized clinical trials (RCT) underway; however, only 2 sham-controlled RCT (both with the Atrial Shunt Device [Corvia Medical] in HF with EF ≥ 40%) have been reported thus far; a mechanistic RCT (n = 44) that demonstrated a reduction in exercise LA pressure at …