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2. Ventricular assist device - Wikipedia

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   [13] [14] [15] In some pulsatile pumps (that use compressed air as an energy source [16]), the volume occupied by blood varies during the pumping cycle. If the pump is contained inside the body then a vent tube to the outside air is required. Continuous-flow VADs are smaller and have proven to be more durable than pulsatile VADs. [17]

3. Artificial heart - Wikipedia

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   An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart.Artificial hearts are typically used as a bridge to heart transplantation, but ongoing research aims to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart when a transplant—whether from a deceased human or, experimentally, from a genetically engineered pig—is unavailable or not viable.

4. Abiomed - Wikipedia

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   The FDA also granted breakthrough device designation for its smallest heart pump, the Impella ECP, which measures only 3mm in length. [44] In April 2022, Abiomed's Impella Bridge-to-Recovery (BTR) minimally-invasive heart pump was successfully implanted in the first patient treated with the device as part of an early feasibility study. [45]

5. Surgeons perform first combined heart pump and pig kidney ...

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   The first transplant surgery to combine a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney has been completed at NYU Langone Health, the system said Wednesday.

6. 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.

7. Woman who received pig kidney transplant and heart pump dies

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   Lisa Pisano, the first person to receive a mechanical heart pump as well as a gene-edited pig kidney, died Sunday, according to NYU Langone Health, where she had the surgery.