SSH rehash of old info

In the current study, being conducted through 19 US hospitals, 20 patients with moderate to severe heart failure had C-Pulse systems implanted. When assessed at the six-month and one-year marks, 16 of them showed significant improvement, moving from a class III or IV down to a mild rating of I on the New York Heart Association's Stages of Heart Failure scale (it should however be noted that three of the other test subjects died, one of them from a "device-related" cause).

They were additionally able to walk an average of 100 feet (30.5 m) farther, and their average quality of life scores improved by around 30 points. "Drug and device therapies that are currently available for heart failure improve that same quality of life score by only five or 10 points," said lead researcher Dr. William Abraham, of The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. "So, this is truly a significant improvement."