Ohio heart center 1st in world to study efficacy of diastolic heart failure treatment

Columbus-based Ohio State University’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital is the first in the world to study the clinical benefits of a device used to treat diastolic heart failure.

Diastolic heart failure occurs when the heart muscle becomes stiff and does not allow blood to flow from the lungs into the heart. This causes blood to flood the first lower left heart chamber, then the upper left chamber and into the lungs.
Read more in Becker’s Hospital Review.