Are One-Third of Costly Implanted Heart Devices Unnecessary?

...anent damage to their heart muscle caused by lack of blood flow — a condition called ischemic cardiomyopathy. Each patient received a test called microvolt T-wave alternans or MTWA, along with a battery of other tests, during their evaluation. Half of the patients went on to receive ICDs, although the MTW...

New Test Identifies Candidates For Cardiac Defibrillator

...edical Center. The American College of Cardiology’s journal has reported the findings of the study. The heart’s electrical activity is measured by the microvolt T-wave Alternans (MTWA) test, when even a minor physical exercise is being performed by the patient. Threatening rhythm disturbances which the traditi...

Microvolt in Medical Products

HearTwave II Microvolt T-Wave Alternans System With Analytic Spectral Method

Description: The HearTwave II system is the Cambridge Heart next generation Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing platform which simplifies hospital and office-based sudden cardiac death risk stratification. This new system offers expanded versatility as it can be configured to perform MTWA and/or standard ...
Company:Cambridge Heart Inc.

HearTwave Microvolt T-Wave Alternans System

Description: The HearTwave system is the original stand-alone Microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing platform....
Company:Cambridge Heart Inc.

CH2000 Cardiac Diagnostic System

Description:... The CH 2000 Cardiac Diagnostic system is a fully featured stress testing system that can include microvolt T-Wave Alternans (MTWA) testing capability as an add-on feature. Interfaces with Trackmaster Treadmills ....
Company:Cambridge Heart Inc.

Cambridge Heart CH2000 Stress-Test System

Description:...nvasive cardiac diagnosis, the fully featured CH2000 Stress Test System is the first and only stress test system that measures T-wave alternans at the microvolt level. The pre-test lead check provides a quality control facility, this combines with the WAVESTAR ECG filter that dynamically filters the signal ens...
Company:Del Mar Reynolds Medical

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Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes

...nent damage to their heart muscle caused by lack of blood flow -- a condition called ischemic cardiomyopathy. Each patient received a test called microvolt T-wave alternans or MTWA, along with a battery of other tests, during their evaluation. Half of the patients went on to receive ICDs, although the MTW...