St. Jude received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of the company’s proprietary, first-to-market MultiPoint™ Pacing technology and today announced the U.S. launch and first U.S. implants of the Quadra Assura MP™ cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D). MultiPoint Pacing technology is a revolutionary approach designed for CRT patients who are not responsive to other pacing options.
The first implant took place at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Speaking about the opportunity, Dr. Neal Lippman, electrophysiologist with Arrhythmia Consultants of Connecticut at Saint Francis said, “We are now able to offer St. Jude Medical’s new MultiPoint Pacing technology for our patients whose heart failure condition is difficult to manage. It is important for us to have this option to individualize patient care and help improve response to therapy.”
Despite the improvements in patient outcomes seen with quadripolar CRT technology, a small, but important group of patients do not respond optimally to the therapy. Importantly, these “non-responders” to CRT cannot be identified at the time of implant and how effective the therapy will be in addressing an individual patient’s heart failure symptoms can be unpredictable. MultiPoint Pacing technology offers physicians a new set of tools that allow for individualized patient therapy with the goal of optimizing their response to CRT.
St. Jude Medical developed and launched the industry’s first quadripolar pacing system in the United States in 2011 featuring four pacing electrodes, offering physicians the ability to effectively and efficiently manage the ever-changing needs of patients with heart failure. The Quartet LV lead design allows the physician to implant the lead in the most stable position without making trade-offs in electrical performance; this also reduces the likelihood of costly and invasive lead revision through a second intervention procedure. Adding MultiPoint Pacing technology and additional lead sizes to the quadripolar offerings provides physicians more advanced options to optimize CRT performance, such as improving hemodynamics, resynchronization and reverse remodeling of the heart.
The first implant took place at Saint Francis Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Speaking about the opportunity, Dr. Neal Lippman, electrophysiologist with Arrhythmia Consultants of Connecticut at Saint Francis said, “We are now able to offer St. Jude Medical’s new MultiPoint Pacing technology for our patients whose heart failure condition is difficult to manage. It is important for us to have this option to individualize patient care and help improve response to therapy.”
Despite the improvements in patient outcomes seen with quadripolar CRT technology, a small, but important group of patients do not respond optimally to the therapy. Importantly, these “non-responders” to CRT cannot be identified at the time of implant and how effective the therapy will be in addressing an individual patient’s heart failure symptoms can be unpredictable. MultiPoint Pacing technology offers physicians a new set of tools that allow for individualized patient therapy with the goal of optimizing their response to CRT.
St. Jude Medical developed and launched the industry’s first quadripolar pacing system in the United States in 2011 featuring four pacing electrodes, offering physicians the ability to effectively and efficiently manage the ever-changing needs of patients with heart failure. The Quartet LV lead design allows the physician to implant the lead in the most stable position without making trade-offs in electrical performance; this also reduces the likelihood of costly and invasive lead revision through a second intervention procedure. Adding MultiPoint Pacing technology and additional lead sizes to the quadripolar offerings provides physicians more advanced options to optimize CRT performance, such as improving hemodynamics, resynchronization and reverse remodeling of the heart.
The press release can be found from St. Jude website by clicking here.
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