Gender
All
Age Group
40 Years and up
Accepting Healthy Volunteers
No
Key Inclusion Criteria:
* Chronic symptomatic Heart Failure
* Ongoing stable GDMT HF management and management of potential comorbidities
* Age ≥ 40 years old
* LV ejection fraction ≥ 40% within the past 3 months, without previously documented ejection fraction \<30%.
* Elevated left atrial pressure with a gradient compared to right atrial pressure (RAP) documented by end-expiratory PCWP during supine ergometer exercise ≥ 25mm Hg, and greater than RAP by ≥ 5 mm Hg
Key Exclusion Criteria:
* MI and/or percutaneous cardiac intervention within past 3 months; CABG in past 3 months, or current indication for coronary revascularization
* Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy initiated within the past 6 months
* Severe heart failure
* Inability to perform 6 minute walk test (distance \< 50 m), OR 6 minute walk test \> 600m
* History of stroke, transient ischemic attack (TIA), deep vein thrombosis (DVT), or pulmonary emboli within the past 6 months
* Presence of significant valve disease
* Known clinically significant untreated carotid artery stenosis
* Currently requiring dialysis; or estimated-GFR \<25ml/min/1.73 m2 by CKD-Epi equation