WRAL Tech Wire reports people dealing with heart failure and no longer adequately responding to medications have a new option to improve quality of life: Cardiaccontractility modulation, or CCM. The treatment is now available through UNC Medical Center, having been utilized recently for the first time in the Carolinas.
“CCM therapy is a therapeutic option for heart failure patients that is intended to help patients feel better, to improve their quality of life, and keep them out of the hospital,” said Anil Gehi, MD, in the report.
Gehi is the Sewell Family-McAllister Distinguished Professor of Medicine and director of cardiac electrophysiology at UNC Medical Center.
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