Artificial pump effectively backs up failing hearts
Thursday, April 2, 2009 - 11:35
in Health & Medicine
Patients with severe heart failure can be bridged to eventual transplant by a new, smaller and lighter implantable heart pump, according to a just-completed study of the device. Results of this third-generation heart assist device were reported at the 58th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology on March 30.