Non-invasive Pressure-Volume Analysis (NIPVA): extending comprehensive left ventricular pump function assessment to more patients and settings
More than 750,000 people in the UK live with heart failure. Heart failure cannot be cured, but medication can help control symptoms. By finding a non-invasive way to assess heart function, people with heart failure will be identified more readily, so they can receive the best possible treatment more quickly. Professor Alun Hughes and colleagues have been awarded a one-year grant to develop a new method of measuring heart function more easily. To understand the cause of heart failure and provide the best treatment, it is important for doctors to know what’s causing the problem. Current methods for comprehensive heart function assessment require specialised medical care as a catheter is inserted into the heart. Professor Hughes will develop a non-invasive method for pressure-volume analysis that combines the most important elements of current approaches and allows doctors to identify the type of heart failure they have. This will mean more people will have their heart function assessed accurately so that the best treatment possible can be given.
Project details
| Grant amount | £110,600 |
|---|---|
| Grant type | Project Grants |
| Application type | Project Grant |
| Start Date | 01 October 2013 |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Reference | PG/13/6/29934 |
| Status | Complete |
