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Over 440 implants worldwide of the MicroMed VAD account
for more than 130 patient years of life
- CE approved Pediatric VAD ·
CE approved Adult VAD
 News
Coverage
The Washington Times
Return to the moon
July 20, 2009
Sometimes NASA finds its technology being used in new and unexpected ways. Mr. Comstock said the know-how that helped pump propellant into space shuttle rocket engines is the same as that being used to pump blood during heart transplants.
Licensed by the medical research and supply firm MicroMed Inc. in 1996, the left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, is based on NASA's fuel-pump technology... read
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CNN
How space exploration has impacted our health
July 17, 2009
Ever since the dawn of the space age, scientists have been furthering our knowledge of medical technology and technique, delivering a range of life-improving and life-saving equipment, including the ventricular assist device... read
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dBusiness News
Surgeons at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Implant Ventricular Assist Device
to Save Life of Eight-Year-Old
May 26, 2009
Eight-year-old Brerra Rucker began suffering from severe vomiting in June 2008. For an agonizing six weeks, physicians were unable to determine the cause of her illness. In the beginning of August, Brerra was transferred to Children’s Sibley Heart Center, located three hours away from her home in Wrightsville, GA.
At Children’s, Brerra was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition in which the cavity of the heart is enlarged and stretched, causing it to become weak and not pump normally. Her heart was failing and she was quickly added to the list of children in need of a heart transplant... read
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Los Angeles Times
Dr.
Michael E. DeBakey, 99; preeminent cardiac surgeon
saved millions with his breakthroughs
July 13, 2008
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, a medical pioneer who was the
driving force in developing the field of cardiac surgery,
operating on more than 60,000 patients and developing
medical technology that saved millions more, has died.
He was 99.
DeBakey died Friday at Methodist
Hospital in Houston, the Baylor College of Medicine
and Methodist Hospital announced, without specifying
the cause of death.
In his highly influential career,
DeBakey performed the first coronary artery bypass surgery
and the first carotid endarterectomy to prevent strokes.
He developed the pump that is the key component of the
heart-and-lung machines routinely used on patients during
heart surgery and an artificial heart now used to keep
patients alive while they wait for their own heart to
improve…read
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New York Times
Michael
DeBakey, Rebuilder of Hearts, Dies at 99
July 13, 2008
Dr. Michael
E. DeBakey, whose innovative heart and blood vessel
operations made him one of the most influential doctors
in the United States, died Friday night in Houston,
where he lived. He was 99.
His death at the Methodist Hospital
was announced by the hospital and Baylor College of
Medicine, where Dr. DeBakey was chancellor emeritus.
“Many consider Michael E.
DeBakey to be the greatest surgeon ever,” The
Journal of the American
Medical Association said in 2005... read
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Washington Post
Innovative
Heart Surgeon DeBakey Dies at 99
July 12, 2008
Michael E. DeBakey, 99, the father of modern cardiovascular
surgery, who invented scores of medical procedures and
instruments, developed the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
and established what later became the Veterans Administration
hospital system, died July 11 at Methodist Hospital
in Houston. The hospital did not release the cause of
death, but he had undergone heart surgery in 2006.
Over a 70-year medical career,
Dr. DeBakey became one of the most influential and innovative
heart surgeons in history. He changed the practice of
cardiac surgery, performed the first successful heart
bypass operation and is credited with saving thousands
of lives… read
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