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Article: CardioWest Total Artificial Heart Wins Approval From FDA.(SynCardia device off experimental list)
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- AScribe Medicine News Service
- Article date:
- October 18, 2004
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Byline: University of Arizona
TUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- The CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart today became the only device of its kind to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
"This takes the CardioWest TAH off of the Medicare 'experimental list,'" said University of Arizona cardiothoracic surgeon Jack G. Copeland, M.D., who led the study of the device. "It's a huge relief to know that 19 years of work with the device has been officially recognized and that a technology that we believed in has now been released for use by others."
The CardioWest is an air-driven (pneumatic) device that is placed in ...