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...cally implanted stocking could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers and who do not want or cannot have a mechanical heart pump or an organ transplant. The heart wrap is still experimental but its maker, Acorn Cardiovascular of St. Paul, Minn., already has approval to sell it in Europe and will seek the same from the federal Food and Drug Administration early next year. The stretchy mesh device looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings and requires no batteries or moving parts. Once placed around the heart through an incision in the chest, the mesh sticks to it and becomes a permanent implant. (AP, 11/8) polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found. About 150 heart failure patients who got this simple device felt better, were less likely to need heart transplants or other operations, and improved in other ways when compared with people who did not get the fabric wrap. "There was a 75 percent overall improvement. It is a sort of breakthrough technology," said Dr. Douglas Mann, the Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist who led the study and reported results Sunday at an American Heart Association conference. Several experts said the surgically implanted stocking could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers and who do not want or cannot have a mechanical heart pump or an organ transplant. The heart wrap is still experimental but its maker, Acorn Cardiovascular of St. Paul, Minn., already has approval to sell it in Europe and will seek the same from the federal Food and Drug Administration early next year. The stretchy mesh device looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings and requires no batteries or moving parts. Once placed around the heart through an incision in the chest, the mesh sticks to it and becomes a permanent implant. (AP, 11/8) polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found. About 150 heart failure patients who got this simple device felt better, were less likely to need heart transplants or other operations, and improved in other ways when compared with people who did not get the fabric wrap. "There was a 75 percent overall improvement. It is a sort of breakthrough technology," said Dr. Douglas Mann, the Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist who led the study and reported results Sunday at an American Heart Association conference. Several experts said the surgically implanted stocking could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers and who do not want or cannot have a mechanical heart pump or an organ transplant. The heart wrap is still experimental but its maker, Acorn Cardiovascular of St. Paul, Minn., already has approval to sell it in Europe and will seek the same from the federal Food and Drug Administration early next year. The stretchy mesh device looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings and requires no batteries or moving parts. Once placed around the heart through an incision in the chest, the mesh sticks to it and becomes a permanent implant. (AP, 11/8) polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found. About 150 heart failure patients who got this simple device felt better, were less likely to need heart transplants or other operations, and improved in other ways when compared with people who did not get the fabric wrap. "There was a 75 percent overall improvement. It is a sort of breakthrough technology," said Dr. Douglas Mann, the Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist who led the study and reported results Sunday at an American Heart Association conference. Several experts said the surgically implanted stocking could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers and who do not want or cannot have a mechanical heart pump or an organ transplant. The heart wrap is still experimental but its maker, Acorn Cardiovascular of St. Paul, Minn., already has approval to sell it in Europe and will seek the same from the federal Food and Drug Administration early next year. The stretchy mesh device looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings and requires no batteries or moving parts. Once placed around the heart through an incision in the chest, the mesh sticks to it and becomes a permanent implant. (AP, 11/8) polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found. About 150 heart failure patients who got this simple device felt better, were less likely to need heart transplants or other operations, and improved in other ways when compared with people who did not get the fabric wrap. "There was a 75 percent overall improvement. It is a sort of breakthrough technology," said Dr. Douglas Mann, the Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist who led the study and reported results Sunday at an American Heart Association conference. Several experts said the surgically implanted stocking could fill a gap for people who are not helped by drugs or pacemakers and who do not want or cannot have a mechanical heart pump or an organ transplant. The heart wrap is still experimental but its maker, Acorn Cardiovascular of St. Paul, Minn., already has approval to sell it in Europe and will seek the same from the federal Food and Drug Administration early next year. The stretchy mesh device looks like fishnet hose but acts like support stockings and requires no batteries or moving parts. Once placed around the heart through an incision in the chest, the mesh sticks to it and becomes a permanent implant. (AP, 11/8) polyester mesh stocking pulled up over the wide bottom of a weak heart can help it pump better and even shrink back to a more normal size, a study found. About 150 heart failure patients who got this simple device felt better, were less likely to need heart transplants or other operations, and improved in other ways when compared with people who did not get the fabric wrap. "There was a 75 percent overall improvement. It is a sort of breakthrough technology," said Dr. Douglas Mann, the Baylor College of Medicine cardiologist who led the study and reported results Sunday at an American Heart Association conference. Several experts said the s...