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Israeli Hospital Is First to Implant Device to Treat Heart Failure
(Jerusalem Post) Judy Siegel-Itzkovich - Congestive heart failure has no medical solution. However, a new Israeli patent, implemented for the first time in a Canadian patient at Haifa's Rambam Medical Center, could be a "therapeutic breakthrough," said Dr. Yair Peled, the cardiologist who invented it. In a minimally invasive operation, while the heart is beating, the CoRolla device was implanted by catheter in the left ventricle of the heart.