Improving the monitoring of chronic heart failure in Argentina: is the implantable pulmonary artery pressure with CardioMEMS Heart Failure System cost-effective?

Abstract Background The CardioMEMS® sensor is a wireless pulmonary artery pressure device used for monitoring symptomatic heart failure (HF). The use of CardioMEMS was associated with a reduction of hospitalizations of HF patients, but the acquisition cost could be high in low-and-middle income coun...

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Main Authors: Andrea Alcaraz, Carlos Rojas-Roque, Daniela Prina, Juan Martín González, Andrés Pichon-Riviere, Federico Augustovski, Alfredo Palacios
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-021-00295-3