Thoratec Corporation - VAD Trials & Outcomes

Machine keeps man's heart ticking

It pushes blood through left ventricle

February 15, 2012 St. Louis Post-Dispatch - HARRY JACKSON JR.

Nichols was among the first people in St. Louis to receive the left ventricle assist device — or LVAD. The device, trade name, HeartMate II, pushes blood through the left ventricle. That’s the heart chamber that sends blood into the aorta and to the body.

Shane Lehman on Hockey Day

February 11, 2012 NHL.com

Ozarks Heart Patient Turns to New Technology to Stay Alive

February 7, 2012 OzarksFirst.com - Shannon Miller

Did you know that more women will die this year because of heart disease than all other types of cancer combined? Many times, women never know their heart is in trouble until it's too late. Kay Breigh didn't expect her life would depend on a device she can no longer live without.

New Heart Pump Saves Woman’s Life

February 6, 2012 RedOrbit.com

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.

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.

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.

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.

Garland Woman's Heart Pump Makes Medical History

December 29, 2011 Yahoo! News

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.

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