Posted on 189 Impulse Dynamics, a company dedicated to helping healthcare providers improve the lives of people with heart failure, today announced the first patient in Brazil was treated with its innovative CCM ® therapy delivered by the Optimizer ® system. The patient was treated by Dr. Edvaldo Xavier, cardiologist at Santa Casa de Maceió in Maceió, Alagoas. “It was with enormous satisfaction that we were able to perform the first Optimizer Smart CCM implant in Brazil, a new therapy for eligible patients with heart failure,” said Dr. Xavier. “The implantation of the CCM device was relatively simple, without any major difficulties and the patient reported an improvement in symptoms the next morning. It’s our hope that this procedure opens the doors for other centers in Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America to begin implanting the Optimizer Smart, bringing hope to heart failure patients for a better quality of life and fewer cardiovascular events. We are extremely satisfied with the support provided by i2Medi Comercial Medica, and we’re hopeful we can perform more implants, making our patients happy and enabling our medical team to provide positive results with this therapy.”