Artificial pump effectively backs up failing hearts
Friday, April 3, 2009 - 06:56
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 30 March...
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