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Article: Mayo Clinic Arizona and VCU Medical Center Honored for Bridging 100% of CardioWest Artificial Heart Patients to Transplant in 2007.
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- Business Wire
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- April 23, 2008
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the CardioWest[TM] temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t), has honored Mayo Clinic Arizona and Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center as CardioWest 100% Centers for 2007.
Both hospitals bridged 100% of their patients who received a CardioWest artificial heart to a donor heart transplant in 2007. Dr. Vigneshwar Kasirajan, Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery for VCU Medical Center, has reached this milestone two years in row. Since VCU Medical Center became CardioWest certified on April 3, 2006, they have bridged eight of their CardioWest patients to transplant - four in 2006 and four in 2007.