At the Rambam Health Care Campus in Israel, a new device has just been implanted for the first time in a patient with diastolic heart failure. The CORolla device from CorAssist Cardiovascular, a company based in Haifa, Israel, is designed to help the left ventricle open up to a greater volume during the diastolic filling than it would otherwise. The device is really just a structure made of metal wire that includes a set of springs that work together to push outward after being compressed by the left ventricle.
It is implanted into a beating heart via a transapical or percutaneous approach, a relatively minimally invasive procedure compared to open heart surgery.
