The Impella is a small ventricular assistance device. This means that it supports the functioning of the ventricles. These are the lower chambers of the heart that pump blood out of the heart and ...

SGMC Health has successfully performed its first procedure using the Abiomed Impella 5.5 with SmartAssist, a minimally ...

The New York Times first reported details of the Impella pump. Johnson & Johnson ... the pump for use in 2008, and the device is aimed at letting the heart rest by helping take over the pumping ...

By Christina Jewett A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to ... It is the third major F.D.A. action for an Impella device in a year. A series of studies suggested that the Impella ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that ... can take when a device "may cause serious injuries or death." The Impella left-sided ...

Cardiogenic shock means the heart is failing to pump, and the Impella device helps the heart pump. But Kader didn't know it would be a game changer for him, too. "I couldn't fully endorse a ...

The device, which looks like a flexible straw ... An illustration of an Impella left-sided heart pump in a heart. - Abiomed The risk of heart perforation during insertion of the devices was ...

The Impella heart pump was originally developed by Impella ... But it used the right device at the right time in the right patient, and it was successful," he said. "The DanGer investigators ...

A heart pump that has been implanted in 66,000 American ... the Food and Drug Administration has decided to let doctors keep using the Impella device and issued an alert about its potential ...

These warnings include careful positioning of the pump during procedures ... can take when a device "may cause serious injuries or death." The Impella left-sided heart pumps are used to reduce ...