(NEXSTAR) – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that two heart pump products are being recalled after reports of 14 deaths and hundreds of injuries were associated with the ...
Earlier this year, Abbott recalled the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 systems due to a graft obstruction problem that, as of ...
Abbott’s research has shown that its HeartMate 3 pump can extend the lives of advanced heart patients by at least five years.
UPDATE: May 16, 2024: An Abbott spokesperson wrote in an emailed statement that patients living with a Heartmate system are at “no risk” because of the issue related to the most recent recall.
Fourteen people have died and 273 have been injured as a result of biological material building up over time in the grafts connecting both HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device ...
Medical devicemaker InfuTronix is recalling 52,328 infusion pump systems after receiving nearly 3,700 complaints about various failures. The products, which are marketed as Nimbus Administration ...
Small Pump May Let Kids Stay Home As They Await New Heart By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, May 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A small, implantable heart pump could help children await ...
Abbott HeartMates team Wharton holds a Guinness World Record for the longest survivor of an artificial double heart valve replacement. "I have two Abbott heart valves," he said. Last week, ...
On Jan. 2, 2023, the world held its breath when Buffalo Bill safety Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field after experiencing a cardiac emergency during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals.
After going on vacation in July 2022, Loree Benigni, then 39, returned home and felt like she had the flu. When her symptoms didn't improve, she visited an urgent care, where doctors ran tests and ...
Surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced Wednesday they completed the world’s first successful combined heart pump and gene-edited pig kidney transplant surgeries on a 54-year-old woman with end ...