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Article: The promise of "piggyback" hearts.(Neighborhood Heart Watch)
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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From the beginning of his brilliant career, Dr. Mehmet Oz demonstrated surgical prowess in repairing valves, transplanting hearts, and opening blocked arteries. Along the way, his technological innovations helped save lives, earning the young scientist an international reputation. He developed a technique to implant the left ventricular assist device--a complex artificial heart to help keep patients alive while waiting for a heart transplant--and, in the mid-1990s, helped build one of the biggest and most active LVAD programs in the world.
Medical Update interviewed Mehmet Oz, M.D.--Irving Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University, director of ...