Heart failure: 'Temporary' pumps could become a permanent treatment
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 - 21:56
in Health & Medicine
A new, more reliable type of device greatly boosts survival rate, researchers find. Tens of thousands in the U.S. could benefit, though the costs to the healthcare system could be huge. Mechanical pumps originally designed to supplement the pumping action of a failing heart and keep the patient alive until a transplant could be found have taken a major step toward becoming a...