Federal regulators have cleared a test that estimates one of cardiology's most useful numbers without threading a catheter into the heart.
The FDA cleared the CorVista System with a Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure add-on, announced Tuesday by CorVista Health and Analytics For Life. The add-on uses a machine-learned algorithm to analyze electrical and hemodynamic signals collected over a few minutes of rest, and indicates the likelihood that a patient has elevated wedge pressure.