New Technology

Mitraclip

The MitraClip® NT Clip Delivery System is a transcatheter mitral valve repair using an implanted clip. The MitraClip is indicated for the percutaneous reduction of significant symptomatic mitral regurgitation due to primary abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus in patients who have been determined to be at prohibitive risk for mitral valve surgery by the heart team. The delivery system is placed as a standard catheterization procedure through the femoral vein, into the right atrium, across the interatrial septum, and across the mitral valve. The MitraClip is placed using echocardiographic and fluoroscopic guidance.

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP/CUMC

Watchman

The WATCHMAN Left Atrial Appendage Closure Device can help reduce the risk of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation who are eligible for anticoagulation therapy or who have contraindication to anti-coagulation therapy. The device is a catheter-delivered heart implant designed to close the left atrial appendage and thereby prevent thrombus embolization from the left atrial appendage. The delivery system is placed as a standard catheterization procedure through the femoral vein, into the right atrium, across the interatrial septum, and into the left atrium. The device is implanted at or slightly distal to the opening of the left atrial appendage.

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP/CUMC | NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Lariat

The LARIAT Suture Delivery Device can help reduce the risk of stroke in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation who are eligible for anticoagulation therapy or who have contraindication to anti-coagulation therapy. The device allows physicians to deliver a pre-tied suture loop around the left atrial appendage. The purpose of this left atrial appendage closure device is to prevent thrombus embolization and stroke.

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP/CUMC | NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Remote Dielectric Sensing (ReDS) Wearable System

The ReDS device can be helpful for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. The device provides noninvasive measurement of lung fluid content. It comprises a wearable vest with embedded sensors and a bedside console, with touch-screen display. A measurement reading is provided within 90 seconds and results are shared with the physician to help guide medical therapies.

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell

Impella RP

The Impella RP may help patients who need emergency mechanical circulatory support of the right heart. The Impella RP is a percutaneous catheter-mounted microaxial rotary heart pump that delivers blood from the inlet area, which sits in the inferior vena cava, to the outlet opening near the tip of the catheter in the pulmonary artery. The pump is placed as a standard catheterization procedure through the femoral vein, into the right atrium, across the tricuspid and pulmonic valves, and into the pulmonary artery. Typical patients who may use the Impella RP include:

• Patients whose right heart fails after receiving a heart pump to support the left side of the heart
• Patients whose right heart fails because of a heart attack
• Patients whose right heart fails after a heart transplant
• Patients whose right heart fails after heart surgery

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Impella CP

The Impella CP may help patients who need emergency mechanical circulatory support of the left heart. The Impella CP is a percutaneous catheter-mounted microaxial rotary heart pump that delivers blood from the left ventricle through an inlet area near the tip to the ascending aorta. The pump is placed as a standart catheterization procedure through the femoral artery, into the ascending aorta, and across the aortic valve into the left ventricle. Typical patients who may use the Impella CP include:

• Patients whose left heart fails because of a heart attack
• Patients whose left heart fails due to longstanding heart dysfunction
• Patients who require support for left heart failure during high risk catheterization or ablation procedures

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Leadless Pacemaker

Pacemakers are used to treat patients with brady-arrythmias, which are slow heart rhythms that may occur as a result of disease in the heart’s conduction system. A leadless pacemaker is small percutaneously-delievered self-contained device that is implanted directly in the right ventricle of the heart. The design of this device eliminates the need for pacemaker leads. The leadless pacemaker is used in patients who only require single-chamber pacing.

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell | NYP Brooklyn Methodist Hospital

Paravalvular leak closure devices

Paravalvular leaks around surgical heart valve implants can lead to heart failure and hemolysis. Transcatheter repair of these leaks using an Amplatzer vascular plug device offers a minimally invasive repair of paravalvular leaks by filling fill the holes that have formed on the sides of the valve implant. 

Available at NYP/Weill Cornell