Heart Failure Treatment News

CTV.ca - A patient in Montreal has become the first living Canadian without a heartbeat. Last month he was given a brand new mechanical heart that pumps blood continuously using a turbine suspended in a magnetic field.

CBC News - “Doctors said they believe the technology will change the way heart patients are treated, providing an alternative to heart transplant surgery.”

UAB Headline News - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sumter, S.C. resident Sherri Selph was 41 in 1994 when first diagnosed with stage-two congestive heart failure. By 1999, her health was diminishing so rapidly that she was diagnosed with end-stage heart disease, and not expected to live beyond six months.

MSNBC - BOSTON - A device that helps severely damaged hearts pump may be able to do what was once thought impossible — reverse heart failure in people who are weeks away from death, British researchers reported Wednesday.

ABC7 News.com - San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose - If you saw Grey's Anatomy Sunday night, you're now familiar with Ventricular Assist Devices (VADS) that keep heart transplant patients alive as they wait for a donor heart. A clinical trial is taking place right now at San Francisco's California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) to test the newest form of VADS.