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2. Modesto hospital uses miniature heart pump to save mother’s ...

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   This rare type of heart failure starts in the last month of pregnancy or within five months after the birth. With treatment, more than 50% of patients recover in less than six months, according to ...

3. Ventricular assist device - Wikipedia

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   In patients with acute signs of heart failure, small percutaneous (introduced to the heart through the skin into a blood vessel rather than through an incision) VADs such as the Impella 5.5, Impella RP, and others can be introduced to either the left or right ventricle (depending on the patient-specific needs) using a wire and that is ...

4. Hemopump - Wikipedia

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   The pump was first used on 25 April 1988 in a 61 years old man, a recent heart transplant recipient who was in the midst of a profound acute episode of rejection and cardiogenic shock. The pump successfully sustained him for 46 hours while there had been sufficient recovery of myocardial contractility to redraw the Hemopump support. [5]

5. Thoratec - Wikipedia

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   With the 2001 Thermo Cardiosystems merger, Thoratec acquired the HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist System, an implanted VAD for end-stage heart patients. A landmark three-year study of 129 patients at 22 major medical centers, called REMATCH (Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure) and published in November 2001, found that the HeartMate VE ...

6. Want to Prevent Heart Disease? A Huge Study Says This ... - AOL

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   The heart pumps against the vessels in the body. If the pressure is high, this can lead to pump failure. Dr. Johnson adds that hypertension is one of the most common causes of heart disease ...

7. Doctors combine a pig kidney transplant and a heart device in ...

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   Then doctors at NYU Langone Health devised a novel one-two punch: Implant a mechanical pump to keep her heart beating and days later transplant a kidney from a genetically modified pig.