SUNRISE, Fla., June 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bioheart, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: BHRT - News ) a company committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases announced today that the company will be introducing its heart failure monitoring systems at the American Association of Heart Failure Nurses 5th Annual Meeting. This year's meeting will take place from June 25 - 27, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The compact Bioheart 3370 home heart failure monitor engages patients through personalized daily interactions and questions, while collecting vital signs and transmitting the information directly into a database. The data are regularly monitored by remotely located medical professionals, who watch for any abnormal readings that may signal a change in the patient's health status. These changes are reported back to the treating physician or nurse. The monitor collects patient data from a range of monitoring devices such as weight scales and blood pressure monitors. Regular data input and monitoring of heart failure patients enables the health care team to detect signs and symptoms of change as they occur leading to reduced re-hospitalizations, reduced costs and better patient outcomes.
Bioheart worked closely with leading heart failure physicians to design the best possible program for patients. "We believe our heart failure monitoring program is best-in-class and that it will lead to improved patient care and a substantial reduction of costs to the healthcare system," said Howard J. Leonhardt, the companies Chief Executive Officer. "We have developed a proactive patient care strategy based on the early recognition of symptoms and early intervention before things progress to a hospitalization."
About Bioheart, Inc.
Bioheart, Inc. is committed to delivering intelligent devices and biologics that help monitor, diagnose and treat heart failure and cardiovascular diseases. Its goals are to improve a patient's quality of life and reduce health care costs and hospitalizations. Specific to biotechnology, Bioheart is focused on the discovery, development and, subject to regulatory approval, commercialization of autologous cell therapies for the treatment of chronic and acute heart damage. Its lead product candidate, MyoCell®, is an innovative clinical muscle-derived stem cell therapy designed to populate regions of scar tissue within a patient's heart with new living cells for the purpose of improving cardiac function in chronic heart failure patients. The Company's pipeline includes multiple product candidates for the treatment of heart damage, including Bioheart Acute Cell Therapy, an autologous, adipose tissue-derived stem cell treatment for acute heart damage, and MyoCell® SDF-1, a therapy utilizing autologous cells that are genetically modified to express additional potentially therapeutic growth proteins. For more information on Bioheart, visit www.bioheartinc.com .
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