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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Abiomed updated warnings on more than 60,000 Impella Left Sided Heart Pumps because ... use imaging when moving the pump catheter, be careful with inserting the device in patients with certain ...

Doctors in Metro Detroit using the breakthrough device were reunited Thursday ... reunion thanks to the world’s smallest heart pump, Impella, giving patients a second chance at life.

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 troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 deaths ... It is the third major FDA action for an Impella device in a year. A series of studies suggested that the Impella heart devices ...

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 ...

A troubled heart pump that has now been linked to 49 deaths ... It is the third major FDA action for an Impella device in a year. A series of studies suggested that the Impella heart devices ...