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Article: Sweden Implants First CardioWest(TM) Temporary Total Artificial Heart.
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- October 23, 2008
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31-Year-Old Man Hours from Death with Both Sides of His Heart Failing Receives Artificial Heart at Largest Hospital in Northern Europe
TUCSON, Ariz. -- On Oct. 15, Dr. Lars Wiklund, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden, led his surgical team in performing Sweden's first implant of the CardioWest[TM] temporary Total Artificial Heart into a 31-year-old male patient. Dr. Ulf Kjellman, head of the ventricular assist device (VAD) program, performed the implant.
"If it weren't for the CardioWest artificial heart, this patient would have died," said Dr. Kjellman. "Both sides of his heart were failing. He ...