Corventis, Inc., a developer of wireless cardiovascular solutions designed to enable early detection, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular conditions, announced today enrollment completion of the company’s MUSIC (Multi-Sensor Monitoring in Congestive Heart Failure) program consisting of 2 trials: the MUSIC Asia (180 patients) and the pivotal MUSIC study (362 patients). The MUSIC program – the goal of which is to develop and evaluate an algorithm to predict heart failure events – has enrolled a total of 542 patients in the international, multi-center prospective trials. Preliminary findings from the MUSIC Asia study were presented today at the 13th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Heart Failure Society of America in Boston, Mass.
“Preventing acute heart failure events is a major challenge in cardiology today, but one that brings the potential to reduce hospitalizations and save lives,” said Inder Anand, MD, PhD, Director of the Heart Failure Program, Minneapolis VA Medical Center and Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota, and MUSIC Asia Co-Principal Investigator. “As the first such investigation to employ an external, non-invasive, multi-sensor monitoring system with continuous collection capabilities, I am pleased with early results regarding the sensitivity and specificity of individual trends provided by the system. We look forward to exploring how the multi-sensor capabilities can further aid clinicians by providing advance warning of impending acute decompensation.”
The MUSIC program enrolled 542 heart failure patients in 32 centers across the United States and Asia. A non-invasive, multi-sensor adhesive device was applied to the patient’s chest and replaced weekly during the 90-day monitoring period.