FIRST U.S. PATIENT WEANED FROM NOVACOR LVAS

WorldHeart, a company specializing in mechanical circulatory support systems, announced that at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, a heart-failure patient became the first patient in the U.S. to be weaned successfully from the Novacor left ventricular assist system (LVAS).

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