Time To Transplant Bridged For More Women Using Smaller Heart Pump

SOURCE:  Medical News Today

DATE:  November 5, 2007

EXCERPT:  "A small, implantable device that helps the heart pump blood offers the promise of keeping alive more women with advanced heart failure until a donor heart is available for transplant, researchers said on Sunday.  .. Researchers said Thoratec Corp's HeartMate II device performed as well in women as in men."   more   

[The findings were presented at an American Heart Association meeting in Orlando ahead of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of Thoratec's application seeking approval of the device. Thoratec funded the study.]