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US News: Doctors successfully implanted a pig kidney into a New Jersey woman, Lisa Pisano, who was teetering on the brink of death. This marked the culmination
New device restores normal heart rhythms, and also can show which areas of the heart are functioning well and which areas are not.
University of Texas at Austin researchers have developed an electronic tattoo heart monitor that could replace hospital patient monitors.
The decision comes after the company's clinical comparisons showed a higher rate of neurological adverse events with the HVAD System than with other circulatory support devices. Medtronic earlier informed physicians that the HVAD pump may experience a delay to restart or a failure to restart after it was stopped. Pump restart failure can potentially worsen a patient's heart condition, lead to a heart attack, require hospitalization and result in death, it said.
>> be brave. okay, bud? >> surgeons have warned jason and stacy there's a chance gage could come out of surgery on an artificial heart pump. just about like the one lindsey was on. it would mean he could not leave the hospital until a donor heart could be found. >> to think that he walked in here a happy little kid with this little bear and to think that he might come out or we could get the call any second now that they're having to put him on a heart device, it's pretty hard. >> and we know gage's course is going down those same roads that his sister did. but it's hard to see, see how far is...