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Elena Vega

FDA Clears a Non-Invasive Test That Estimates a Heart Pressure Normally Measured with a Catheter

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.

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