What patients want to know about the new Stereotaxis GentleTouch^TM Magnetic System.

What touches your heart?

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With Stereotaxis, very little.

Your doctor is recommending a gentler way to touch your heart.

Although your heart beats for a lifetime, it's a surprisingly delicate muscle. Made up of a network of arteries, veins and small chambers, the heart's thin walls can be damaged by the slightest touch.

An innovative new care system has been designed to touch the heart more gently and more carefully than ever before. It's called the Stereotaxis GentleTouch^TM Magnetic System, and it's used for a number of heart diseases, including:

• Arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter, as well as supraventricular tachycardias,
• Heart failure, with interventional procedures such as cardiac resynchronization therapy, and
• Coronary Artery Disease, with procedures designed to reopen blocked arteries in coronary vessels with partial or total occlusion.

Hearts feel the benefits of Stereotaxis' GentleTouch^TM technology.

By combining the benefits of precise, computer-aided magnetic guidance with gentle catheter contact, we can now navigate and touch hearts in a softer, more accurate way than ever before. The potential benefits to patients include:

• Shorter procedures,
• Faster recovery time,
• Less exposure to X-ray radiation,
• Less risk of serious complications from damaging blood vessels or heart tissue, and
• Less likelihood of referral to more invasive open-heart surgical procedures.

Stereotaxis technology offers an innovation in cardiovascular care. It allows us to reach remote areas of the heart that have been difficult, if not impossible, to access before. In some cases, we can now care for patients who would otherwise be referred to more invasive coronary artery bypass surgery. And, with this system, we now have the potential to help patients suffering from irregular heartbeats who would otherwise have to rely on drug therapy alone, which may only partly address their symptoms.

Find out more about this less invasive way to treat heart disease.

Your doctor would be happy to talk with you further about the Stereotaxis system or your recommended procedure. We invite you to call your doctor directly, or call us with your questions.

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Using GentleTouch^TM catheters, doctors can now perform remotely controlled, image-guided computerized heart procedures more precisely than traditional methods allowed before.