6/30/2009 PERMALINK
First implant of what could prove to be a much better cyborg heart
Abiomed recently announced the successful implant of its AbioCor Total Replacement Heart, performed at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital by Mark Anderson, M.D., associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. This is the first AbioCor implant since the completion of clinical trials and Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The heart was implanted in a 76-year-old male patient diagnosed with congestive, end-stage heart failure, who did not qualify for a heart transplant or other available therapies, making him eligible for the AbioCor implant.