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Heart Failure Patient Supported By DuraHeart™ Left-Ventricular Assist System Receives Successful Donor Transplant After Four Years On Device

Posted By: Anonymous | Posted On: Dec 21,2009 18:30 pm | View: 11 Terumo Heart, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Terumo Corporation, today announced that one of its earliest patients to receive the DuraHeart™ Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) has received a donor heart transplant, nearly four years after receiving the mechanical circulatory support device. Rudolf Schmidthorst, 63, Germany, became one of the longest-living recipients of this device designed to aid the pumping action of the heart in order to circulate blood throughout his body. Read More: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3351474.htm



 
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