New cardiac pump clinically superior, safer for patients, study suggests
Sunday, March 17, 2019 - 14:50
in Health & Medicine
The study of more than 1,000 patients with severe heart failure not only confirms that the HeartMate 3™, a next-generation LVAD device, markedly reduced the need for re-operations due to pump malfunctions, but also found that it lowered risk of bleeding events and strokes, compared to the HeartMate II™.