The largest single-centre study of patients implanted with a total artificial heart finds the device may help patients in severe heart failure survive until they can receive a heart transplant, according to material presented at a session of the [b]American College of Cardiology[/b]. [s]Medical Xpress[/s] reports researchers studied 22 patients implanted with total artificial hearts at [b]Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute[/b] in 2012 and 2013 to look at the primary endpoints of death and incidence of stroke at 60 days.
[link url=http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-03-artificial-hearts-patients-survive-transplant.html]Full Medical Xpress report[/link]
[link url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100814.htm]ACC research summary[/link]