Artificial Heart a Good Bridge to Transplant
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An artificial heart does an effective job of keeping heart-transplant candidates alive until -- and even after -- a donor organ becomes available, cardiologists report.
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Seriously ill heart failure patients   expected to live only a month and ineligible for transplant can   get an implant of a permanent artificial heart, U.S. health   officials ruled on Tuesday.
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First, researchers used soap to wash out most of the cells from a rat's heart. Then they injected new cells to the shell that was left and added a pacemaker to teach the cells to pump like a heart. The result was a new heart. The process -- likened to gutting and rebuilding a house -- may take scientists a step closer to offering new options to the sickest patients.
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Researchers at MIT are one step closer to creating patches for damaged hearts: They've used rat cells to construct a beating slice of cardiac tissue about the size of a dime. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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Federal regulators approved use of an artificial heart yesterday, marking the first time a mechanical device has been made widely available to replace a failing human organ.
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Stem cells taken from muscle tissue can be used to build new blood vessels for transplants, researchers reported on Friday.
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Scientists are developing an artificial vein for use in patients with circulation problems.
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Donor hearts could make good scaffolding for new organs.
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The first artificial heart won U.S. approval Monday for use as a temporary measure to keep alive patients on the verge of death while they wait for live organs to become available for transplants.
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Heart cells grown from human embryonic stem cells have the potential to be biological pacemakers. Researchers at the Technion Institute in Haifa, Israel have demonstrated that when the embryonic
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Science & environment: Objective of growing replacement organs for humans has been brought a step closer
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Seventy-nine percent of patients who received the Tucson-developed CardioWest Total Artificial Heart lived long enough to receive a heart transplant, according to a study in Thursday&#39;s New England Journal of Medicine.
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A heart patient who had muscle cells transferred from his leg to his heart makes good progress.
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The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved for use the first totally implantable artificial heart under a program that will make the complicated, $250,000 device available for as many as 4,000 people.
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Doctors are to trial a new type of heart pump to help people with heart failure.
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After 22 years of experimentation, the maker of the nation's first self-contained artificial heart yesterday asked the federal government for permission to begin selling up to 4,000 of the devices each year as a last-chance treatment for people with irreversible heart failure.
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THURSDAY, Nov. 16 (HealthDay News) -- Young patients who receive replacement heart valves made from animal tissue live just as long as those who get mechanical valves, new research shows.