 Heart pumps for children pass milestone
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Doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC announced Thursday that two pediatric heart pumps they helped invent reached important milestones that could enable children with heart failure to await transplants at home. (Click here for the full story.)
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Littlest heart patients get hope from one who's been there
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She was born with a defective heart. But those who spend time with Joanne Snyder, a physician assistant at Children's Heart Center, think her heart is more whole than most.
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Experimental Heart Device Saves Child Patients In Pittsburgh
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| Doctors at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC are saving the lives of babies and children whose hearts have failed, and they're doing it with an experimental device called the Berlin Heart. (Click here to read the full story.) |
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UPMC Begins Enrollment in Study of Ventrassist™ Heart Support Device as a Bridge to Transplantation
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PITTSBURGH, May 21, 2007 — Doctors at UPMC have begun a study using an investigational cardiac device, the VentrAssist™ Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAD) to see whether it can be used safely and effectively in patients with end-stage heart failure.
The study hopes to enroll 30 patients overall for the multi-center feasibility trial throughout nine centers in the United States. Five patients at UPMC have received the device so far, and one has successfully received a heart transplant after waiting for nearly three months on the pump, two of which were spent at home on the device. (Click here to read the full story.)
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UPMC Transplant Surgeon to Bike Across America
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Brack Hattler, M.D., Ph.D., the Katherine DuRoss Ford Chair of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute (HLESI), UPMC, will embark on a 3,300-mile bicycle journey from Seattle to Washington, D.C. beginning June 25 and ending August 11 to help raise funds for the American Lung Association (ALA) of Washington’s “Bike Ride Across America Campaign.” (click here to read the full story)
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Engineering the Future of Cardiac Surgery
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| As a national center of excellence for heart surgery and the largest heart surgery program in Pennsylvania, the UPMC Heart, Lung, and Esophageal Surgery Institute’s (HLESI) Division of Cardiac Surgery has a long history of providing outstanding care and access to the most advanced surgical techniques available to treat a broad spectrum of heart and vascular diseases and conditions. And with two newly recruited surgical specialists and two new specialty care centers on the way, the program is poised to advance further up the ranks as one of the most experienced and respected in the nation. (Click here to read the full story) |
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First Beating-Heart Transplant Performed at UPMC
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Protected by its own nutrients and blood supply, a beating heart supported by an investigational organ preservation device was successfully transplanted into a 47-year-old man with congestive heart failure and pulmonary hypertension in April. The surgery was performed at UPMC by Kenneth McCurry, MD, director of cardiopulmonary transplantation at UPMC’s Heart, Lung, and Esophageal Surgery Institute. (Click here to read the full story)
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New Website Launched
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| We are pleased to launch the new website for the Division of Cardiac Surgery. We welcome your feedback. Please send your comments or suggestions to Gina O'Malley, Project Specialist, Heart, Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute. |
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