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The HeartMate 2 L-Vad: Dr. Philip Rozeman

October 5, 2011   KTBS.com

The HeartMate 2 L-Vad: Dr. Philip Rozeman

Prescription Arkansas: The HeartMate

October 5, 2011   Today’s THV - Jessica Johnson

Legendary football coach, Jimmy "red" Parker, 79, has experienced some challenges in his life. The former coach of Citadel in South Carolina, Clemson, Arkansas, A&M, and more has faced some worthy opponents.

Texas Children's Hospital Explants Heart Assist Device: Sends Teen Home with a Healed Heart

Teen sidesteps heart transplantation with help of pediatric heart specialists

August 3, 2011   PR Newswire

Texas Children's Hospital is the nation's first pediatric hospital to both surgically implant and later explant a mechanical ventricular assist device (VAD), inside the chest of a teen with chronic heart failure as a bridge to recovery, avoiding heart transplantation.

Former Riverhead councilman home after life-saving heart surgery

July 25, 2011   Riverhead Local - DENISE CIVILETTI

Former Riverhead councilman Jim Lull may not have a pulse, but he's feeling better than he's felt in a very long time.

Space Shuttle Technology a Real Lifesaver

Shuttle era ends on same day man leaves hospital with life saving shuttle inspired heart pump

July 21, 2011   The 33 News Dallas - Barry Carpenter

The Space Shuttle Atlantis touched down Thursday morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida just a few hours before 77 year old Jim Myers checked out of his room at The Heart Hospital Baylor-Plano.

Sharp study shows heart pumps work for older heart failure patients

June 28, 2011   Sign On San Diego - R.J. Ignelzi

Patients 70 years of age or older can have good functional recovery, survival and quality of life for at least two years after undergoing left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy for heart failure, according to the results of a clinical study at Sharp Memorial Hospital.

JACC: Older HF patients have good LVAD outcomes at community hospitals

June 16, 2011   Cardiovascular Business - Justine Cadet

Advanced age (older than 70 years) should not be used as an independent contraindication when selecting a heart failure (HF) patient for left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy at experienced community hospital centers, based on results of a single-center study in the June 21 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Clinical Strategies and Outcomes in Advanced Heart Failure Patients Older Than 70 Years of Age Receiving the HeartMate II Left Ventricular Assist Device

June 11, 2011   Journal of the American College of Cardiology

The primary objective of this study was to determine outcomes in left ventricular assist device (LVAD) patients older than age 70 years.

Storytellers: Heart pump keeps Valley man alive

May 9, 2011   The Arizona Republic - John Faherty

Kevin Lausch couldn't speak because of the tubes in his throat, so he reached for his wife's hand and, using his finger, slowly wrote "p-r-i-e-s-t" in her palm.

Heart machine keeps man ticking

April 27, 2011   STLtoday.com - HARRY JACKSON JR

A swim in the ocean off a beach in the Virgin Islands topped Thomas Nichols' bucket list.

No cowardly lions

April 14, 2011   News Tribune - Matthew Baker

Life comes one beat at a time for heart transplant patients before and after surgery.

Man Gets Second Chance At Life

February 19, 2011   KPTM - Tony Smith

A technology for patients experiencing heart failure is available in Omaha. The device allows more people to be eligible for heart transplants.

Heart pump heaps hope on patients

Ventricular assistive device keeps tickers ticking

February 9, 2011   Austin News - Jim Swift

It's been three years now since surgeons began using a new heart pump inside patients' bodies and they couldn't be happier with the results.

Valentine Goes Home With New Heart

February 8, 2011   Sacremento Press - Stephanie Breitbart

For many people Valentine’s Day is a holiday filled with love, romance and affection. It’s a time for meaningful cards, flowers and sentimental gifts. But this year, one Sacramento Valentine received a gift like no other. He received the gift of life – a new heart.

Pump bridges the gap from old heart to new

January 27, 2011   Omaha World-Herald - Michael O'Connor

Two years ago heart disease left Gary Smith so weak that he struggled to walk from his recliner to the bathroom.

From the Brink: Ventricular Assist Devices for Heart Failure

January 21, 2011   DukeHealth.org - Kathleen Yount

Sometimes it pays to be a zebrafish. You could stab a zebrafish in the heart, and that zebrafish would grow new heart muscle and keep on swimming.

Heart to heart: new medical procedure offered in Valley

December 10, 2010   KFSN-TV Fresno, CA

A new medical procedure is available to Valley residents who suffer from heart disease. A heart pump is improving life for patients waiting for a new heart.

Madison County’s Patsy Dudley finds new hope, and new life, in lifesaving heart pump

September 10, 2010   Madison Journal Today - Margie Richards

You might say Patsy Dudley and her husband Joe have a new lease on life, thanks to one of the wonders of modern technology.

Woman's heart revival an unexplained gift

August 30, 2010   The Columbus Dispatch - Misti Crane

Melissa Justice was on the operating table. In minutes, surgeons would open her chest to remove her heart. She'd been told she would die without the donor heart that awaited.

Take it to Heart

Technology gives Ron Spotts a Second Chance at Life

August 21, 2010   The Express (Lockhaven, PA) - RACHEL MAZZA

Ron Spotts, a lifelong resident of Beech Creek, enjoys skiing, working on the house, gardening and going to Penn State football games with his family.

N.C. hospitals offer new heart device that may replace need for transplants

July 15, 2010   News 14 - Shawn Flynn

Charlotte, NC A 21-year-old North Carolina man has a new lease on life thanks to a new heart implant device. Sivinty Puth received the Heart Mate, a Ventricular Assist Device, not a moment too soon.

Cheney recuperating from heart implant operation

July 14, 2010   USA Today - Steve Sternberg

Former vice president Dick Cheney, 69, announced Wednesday that doctors implanted a small pump in his chest last week to support his failing heart.

Technology Brings New Hope for People With Heart Failure

June 7, 2010   U.Va. Health System

An acute cardiomyopathy sends a new mom to the brink of death. A Redskins fan with heart failure is sidelined by his illness. A heart condition keeps a hunting enthusiast from the activity he loves most.

Bionic heart keeps bride, 22, alive

Instead of her funeral, she’s planning her wedding today

May 26, 2010   MSNBC - TodayShow.com

Emotionally, college student Ally Smith’s heart told her to marry Mike Babineaux. But medically, it told her to push Mike away, because she wouldn’t survive to enjoy a full life with him.

Pump enriching lives of end-stage heart patients

May 13, 2010   The Dallas Morning News - SHERRY JACOBSON

Technically speaking, Al Senter died almost two years ago. But there he was last week, undeniably alive, climbing up and down a ladder, trimming the bushes around his Flower Mound home.

U.S. faces an epidemic of heart failure, but better treatment offers hope

May 12, 2010   The Oregonian - Andy Dworkin

By the time X-rays uncovered the cause of Nakia Hentz’ pain and weakness, her heart had swelled to three times its normal size.

The Amityville honour

Jamaican heart surgeon shares Long Island, NY history

May 9, 2010   Jamaica Observer (Jamaica, W.I.) - DESMOND ALLEN

THE Amityville Horror movie is an all-time favourite of Jamaicans. But one Jamaican has prevented what could have been horror for an Amityville, Long Island man by performing successful life-saving heart surgery on him.

Patient youngest in the state to receive artificial heart

April 30, 2010   WCSC-TV (CBS) Charleston, SC - Anthony Miller

Asha Wilson sat in the hotel she's staying in remembering the pain of the last few months.

UT Southwestern Patient Among First in North Texas to Receive Permanent Heart Implant

April 20, 2010   Newswise

Federal approval for an alternative therapy to heart transplantation led to a new lease on life for a UT Southwestern Medical Center patient who suffered from heart failure for nearly a decade.

Device brings new life to patients who can't get a heart transplant

Seton Medical Center Austin among hospitals offering surgery; Scott & White expects to offer it soon in Temple.

April 12, 2010   Austin American-Statesman - Mary Ann Roser

After tying the laces on one shoe, Keith Groscost of Cedar Park had to rest before he could tie the other laces. Walking left him breathless. And he used oxygen while sleeping. Groscost had heart failure, and the doctors told him that at 79, he was too old for a transplant.

New medical device gives retired teacher a new chance at life

Students will honor Robert Cooley at his namesake school later this spring

April 10, 2010   Roseville Press-Tribune (CA) - Sena Christian

Robert Cooley used only two sick days during his whole 37-year teaching career.

Heart pump op buys more time for Rogerstone man

March 19, 2010   South Wales Argus (UK)

AFTER spending almost four years waiting for a new heart, Stewart Rankin is hoping an operation today to fit an artificial heart pump will make the wait a little easier.

70-year-old has new device and dedicated team to thank for his life

March 16, 2010   Carroll County News - Anna Mathews

Diagnosed with Stage 4 heart failure, unable to tie his shoes, walk across the room, or bend over, options for 70-year-old Jim Chilson seemed slim.

New implanted heart pumps give hope to more heart failure patients

March 9, 2010   KENS5.com (TX)

There’s new hope for thousands of patients suffering from heart failure. It’s a new implanted pump that keeps the blood moving and vastly improves the quality of life.

HeartMate II can take place of transplant

March 3, 2010   Today's THV

Now some patients with heart failure have a choice between a heart transplant and living the rest of their life with a mechanical assist device that can be replaced when needed.

Sacramento man offers hope to others with heart pump

March 2, 2010   Republican Herald (PA)

No doubt, Charlie R. Shade's "heart" is in the right place.

Allegheny General Hospital gets OK for heart failure device

February 17, 2010   Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The FDA has approved a new technology that was tested at Allegheny General Hospital for patients with advanced heart failure who do not qualify for a transplant.

FDA Approves New Device Investigated at AGH for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

February 17, 2010   HealthCanal

A revolutionary heart assist technology investigated for several years at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) has been approved by the FDA forpatients with advanced heart failure who do not qualify for heart transplantation. Called the Thoratec® HeartMate II® Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS), the device is now available as “destination therapy” – or long-term treatment for those patients.

Surgeons at Morristown hospital implant unique heart device

February 16, 2010   NJ.com

When Carter Blankenship agreed to have a battery-operated device implanted in his chest, he had no idea he would be making medical history.

New HeartMate II pump is latest bridge to life

February 16, 2010   USA Today

When Leonor Childers' heart quit, it wasn't without reason.

Heart device offers hope of longer life

February 12, 2010   The Columbus Dispatch

Bob Jiles believes in accepting what he cannot change. The 76-year-old Dayton man was suffering from heart failure and knew he was living his final days when his cardiologist sat him down about a month ago and told him he might have a shot at more time.

FDA approves heart pump that showed promise in UW trial

February 11, 2010   The Badger Herald

The United States Food and Drug Administration recently approved a newly developed heart pump tested in a clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin.

New heart pump could benefit thousands

February 10, 2010   PhysOrg.com

Although they have neither a pulse nor a measurable blood pressure, people with advanced heart failure lived longer and felt better when implanted with a new small pump that circulates their blood, according to UW Health heart experts whose patients took part in a recent clinical trial.

New Hope For Severe Heart Failure Patients

February 8, 2010   The Boston Channel

There is new hope for thousands of the sickest of heart patients. As NewsCenter 5's Heather Unruh reported Monday, researchers say the heart pump device could save, and improve countless lives.

Beat of Hope

February 8, 2010   My Fox DC

Thousands have been left in the dark this week due to the snow storm. For one Maryland mother, having electricity literally means the difference between life and death.

FDA approves mechanical heart pump for long-term use in cardiac patients based partly on Hershey Medical Center trials

February 4, 2010   The Patriot News (PA)

The FDA has approved the HeartMate II heart assist device for long-term use in patients with advanced heart failure who do not qualify for heart transplants. The Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has been instrumental in trials that led to the decision, according to hospital officials.

Why Some Are 'Opting Out' Of Heart Transplants

February 1, 2010   Health News Digest - (HealthNewsDigest.com - COLUMBUS, Ohio)

Thanks to some remarkable technology, patients at Ohio State University Medical Center are choosing to take themselves off of the heart transplant waiting list and are living to tell about it. With the help of a ventricular assist device (VAD), or heart pump, in some cases these heart failure patients can live a full, active life without ever needing a new heart.

Pump tested at Sharp OK’d for more hearts

January 27, 2010   San Diego Union Tribune

People who suffer from late-stage heart failure but don’t qualify for a transplant now have a new option: a cell-phone-size heart pump tested at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego.

Heart Pump Could Save Possibly Millions of Lives

January 27, 2010   Voice of America

The World Health Organization says heart disease kills about 17 million people every year and that it will become the leading cause of death in developing countries. But now, there is some hope. A new device is being marketed that could save countless lives.

Heart Pump gets Green Light

January 27, 2010   NBC San Diego

A locally tested device is offering a new option for severe heart-failure patients.

Life Without a Pulse: Heart Pump Aids Cardiac Patients

January 23, 2010   ABC World News

You might never know by looking at him, but 78-year-old Richard Stowe has a mechanical pump inside his chest, doing most of the work of his weakened heart.

Heart pump developed in Houston approved by Houston

January 21, 2010   Top News

The US Food and Drug Administration approved the usage of a heart pump this week

FDA Approves VAD Used at Barnes-Jewish for Destination Therapy

January 21, 2010   HealthCanal.com

Physicians at Barnes-Jewish Hospital can expand use of a device targeted at helping heart failure patients survive long term, thanks to a decision today by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

FDA Approves for Permanent Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure Assist Device Pioneered by Texas heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital

January 21, 2010   Business Wire

The federal Food and Drug Administration today approved a continuous-flow heart-assist device pioneered at the Texas Heart Institute (THI) at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital (SLEH) for use as a permanent treatment for advanced heart failure.

HeartMate II LVAD as Permanent Option for Heart Failure

January 21, 2010   MedGadget

The FDA has just issued clearance for Thoratec Corporation's HeartMate II LVAD (left ventricular assist device) to be used as a permanent therapy in patients with severe heart failure that are not candidates for organ replacement.

FDA Gives Approval to New Heart Device

January 21, 2010   MedPage Today

The FDA has granted premarket approval to a second left ventricular assist system (HeartMate II).

FDA approved HeartMate II for destination therapy in patients with advanced-stage HF

January 21, 2010   Cardiology Today

The FDA has granted approval of Thoratec's HeartMate II left ventricular assist device, allowing the use of the device for destination therapy.

Heart-Assist System Approved for Severe Heart Failure: Among people who aren't candidates for heart transplant

January 20, 2010   US News & World Report

A device that helps the heart's left ventricle pump blood in people who have severe heart failure but who aren't candidates for heart transplant has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Implanted heart pump keeps teenager active

January 17, 2010   Wilton Villager (CT)

It was the kind of complaint any mother of a 16-year-old has heard a hundred times: "Mom, I don't feel well."

"The Bionic Woman"

January 12, 2010   National Public Radio

Leonor Childers is one of the few people in this country who have a new kind of heart pump - one that is permanently implanted, which she plugs into the wall each night.

79-year-old with heart assist device serves as inspiration to others

January 12, 2010   Penn Live (Patriot News) (PA)

The decision to have a left ventricle assist device installed in his body was an easy one for Charles Shade.

Battery-powered pump is implanted in teenager with unexplained heart failure

January 12, 2010   Washington Post

It was the kind of complaint any mother of a 16-year-old has heard a hundred times: "Mom, I don't feel well."

Heart pump restores hope for transplant candidates

October 26, 2010   Jackson Clarion Ledger (online)

Charles Cleveland, 56, of Hazlehurst was on a heart transplant waiting list earlier this year when his health began to deteriorate.

Health Watch: Heart Transplant Pump

July 15, 2008   WAGA-TV CH 5 (FOX) Atlanta

Adam Cooper was a healthy college senior until this Spring, when he caught a flu-like virus he just couldn't shake. Now, more than two months after he was hospitalized at St. Joseph's hospital, Adam is finally hoping to go home.

Pennsylvania Man Thankful for Artificial Heart Pump

University of Rochester doctors offer high-tech treatment after severe heart attack

November 21, 2011   HealthCanal.com (PA) - Leslie White

When the Bell family gathers Thursday to give thanks, they will add the doctors and nurses at the University of Rochester Medical Center to the list of blessings received this year. For the first time in six months, patriarch Kyle Bell will be at the table, following life-saving care for his failing heart.

My Device: LVAD

November 28, 2011   Discoveries Magazine - Jaime Moriguchi, MD

More than 5 million Americans are afflicted with congestive heart failure. Of these, 70,000 will have advanced heart failure that cannot be treated with conventional therapies. For these patients, the one-year survival rate is less than 50 percent and is associated with an extremely poor quality of life.

Miracle Heart Pump

Implant gives dying patients new life

December 1, 2011   AARP Bulletin - Peter Jaret

"My heart was failing. I was dying. It was as simple as that," Bill Sowden, 80, remembers. "They told me I had four to six weeks to live. I began to put my affairs in order. I even arranged for the music I wanted performed at my funeral." That was more than five years ago.

Implanted blood pump heartens Toledoan’s Yule

December 17, 2011   Toledo Blade - MIKE SIGOV

James Howell can get around on his own this holiday season after two area surgeons replaced his failed heart with an artificial blood pump in what appears to be the first such surgery in northwest Ohio.

New heart pump makes Toledo debut

December 16, 2011   WTOL-TV - Cristy Gimbel

For those waiting on a heart transplant, a new mechanical heart pump known as the LVAD can give the patient a new lease on life.

High School Athlete Awaiting Heart Transplant Goes Home For Holidays

December 22, 2011   CBS Miami

A Florida high school athlete on a heart assist device, and awaiting a heart and kidney transplant, will be going home Friday just in time to celebrate the holidays with his family.

Heart pump gives new life to Benton woman

December 26, 2011   The Saline Courier - Lynda Hollenbeck

LaDonna McCormack had hoped to have a new heart by Christmas.
She didn't get it, but she got the next best thing: a tiny heart pump that is literally saving her life every day.

Medical City doctor talks about life-saving heart pump

December 28, 2011   WFAA - CYNTHIA IZAGUIRRE

Five million people in the United States suffer from congestive heart failure. It's a serious condition where the heart can't pump enough blood through your body. In a News 8 Daybreak exclusive, Cynthia Izaguirre talks with the doctor who helped save Shirley Wilber's life, Dr. Todd Dewey, of Medical City Dallas.

Implantable heart pump saving lives

December 28, 2011   FOX Toledo Online

If you need an organ transplant, there's no guarantee one will be available for you.
University of Toledo Medical Center's Dr. Mark Bonnell talks about in this edition of FOX Toledo Talk Back about the implantable mechanical heart pump that's being used in Toledo to save lives.

Garland Woman's Heart Pump Makes Medical History

December 29, 2011   Yahoo! News

No pulse and no blood pressure, but local man has a generous heart

January 8, 2012   Bluefield Daily Telegraph - BILL ARCHER

This story was important enough for Joe Kessler’s wife to type and hand-deliver to the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. For the past eight months, Donna Kessler has been her husband’s constant companion. Even when he rang the bell for the Salvation Army last month, she sat in the car and watched Joe’s joy of volunteering.

Saint Thomas Heart Opens New Ventricular Assist Device Center; One of Only 33 Dedicated Centers in United States

Middle Tennessee’s only certified Destination Therapy program offers renewed hope and results for advanced heart failure patients

January 18, 2012   Businesswire

Saint Thomas Hospital, a member of Saint Thomas Health and a national leader in cardiac care, announced today the opening of the Saint Thomas Heart Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Center at an invitation only event at LP Field. The center, which is one of only 33 dedicated VAD centers in the United States, will meet the needs of the sickest heart failure patients in Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky.

Winchester Resident First Here To Get Heart Pump Device

January 19, 2012   The Herald Chronicle - Deidre Ortiz

Winchester resident is the first in Franklin County to receive a Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), after the recommendation of St. Thomas cardiologist and heart failure specialist, Dr. Don Chomsky, who recently provided this newspaper with information on this latest state-of-the-art device.

New device helps save heart patients

January 24, 2012   WNYT – Channel 13 - Benita Zahn

That Dave Morey is going home is almost miraculous.
It's almost two months to the day he arrived at Albany Medical Center, fairly knocking on heaven's gate. His congestive heart failure was so advanced, he'd run out of options.

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