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FDA Rejects Artificial Heart
Mad_Rain writes "Those people who fear cyborgs can rest easy. The Food and Drug Administration voted to reject Abiomed's request to sell artificial hearts to people who have suffered heart failure and exhausted their treatment options. The FDA stated that there was too little gain with too many adverse side effects in the limited trial run (17 people underwent the procedure). Although this isn't quite the same product mentioned in previous Slashdot coverage, it does seem like a setback towards replacing failing organs with fully artificial ones."


Man Has Heart Valve Implanted Through Leg Vein
A team of Michigan cardiologists has become the first to install an artificial heart valve in a patient by feeding the device through a leg vein rather than by opening the chest, The New York Times reported ...


Heart Valve Disease Treatment
Title: Heart Valve Disease TreatmentCategory: Procedures and TestsCreated: 1/31/2005 10:50:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/31/2005 10:49:42 AM


Statin Treatment Doesn't Help Heart Valve Problem
Title: Statin Treatment Doesn't Help Heart Valve ProblemCategory: Health NewsCreated: 6/9/2005 1:58:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 6/9/2005 1:58:10 AM


FDA panel rejects artificial heart
The first fully implantable artificial heart hasn't yet proved its promise, say government advisers worried that most of the few recipients so far suffered serious side effects for little gain.

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2. SwRI Fall 1995 Technology Today - "Biomaterials"
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8. FDA Heart Health Online - Prosthetic Heart Valve
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14. Endocarditis - MayoClinic.com
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17. NOVA Online | Cut to the Heart | Treating a Sick Heart
... When heart failure is due to valvular disease, surgical implantation of an artificial heart valve or valve repair may alleviate the problem. Surgery may also be helpful in correcting congenital heart ...
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18. Utah Artificial Heart Program - Research
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19. Heart Valves:Replacement and Infections: St. Jude Heart Valve Recall
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20. North Carolina Imaging
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21. Palms of Pasadena Hospital
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29. ABC 7 News - Heart Doc Halts Surgery to Donate Blood
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30. PHCentral Diary: Lynn Schaeffer
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35. Prosthesis (i.e., artificial body members), parts thereof, or aids and acces...
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36. Welcome to Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India ::
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37. Richard Schoephoerster
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38. Minneapolis Radiology - Experts in Medical Imaging
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39. South Carolina Diagnostic Imaging
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40. Pacemaker Club :: Support & Information For Pacemaker Recipients
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41. Black Hills Surgery Center - MRI - surgical center in Rapid City
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42. Southern Bone and Joint Specialists, P.A.
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43. TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT BOARD
... 2001 in recognition of their success in commercializing the production of TTK Chitra Artificial Heart Valve Prosthesis. Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology ...
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