Press Releases

1st Hospital in Greece Begins Certification Training
to Implant SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart

March 9, 2010

On March 4 & 5, the surgical team from the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, led by Dr. Petros Sfirakis, Director of the Transplantation Department & Mechanical Support Unit and Dr. Louis Louca, Surgeon/VAD Coordinator, completed the first phase of certification training to implant the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart... read more

Freedom™ Driver System Receives CE Mark
to Power SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart in Europe

March 4, 2010

On March 4, SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced that its new Freedom™ driver system has received the CE Mark to power the Total Artificial Heart in Europe... read more

Dr. Marvin Slepian Gives Keynote Speech
on SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart
at Medical Devices Summit 2010

Mar. 2, 2010

On March 2, Dr. Marvin Slepian, world-renowned interventional cardiologist and co-founder and chairman of SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, was the keynote speaker at the Medical Devices Summit 2010 held in Boston... read more

Belgian Hospital 50th Transplant Center to Begin Certification Training
to Implant SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart

Feb. 23, 2010

On Feb. 25 & 26, the surgical team from Onze Lieve Vrouw (OLV) Hospital Aalst, led by surgeons Ivo Deblier, MD, and Karl Dossche, PhD, and accompanied by anesthesiologist Koen De Decker, MD, will become the first hospital in Belgium and the 50th hospital in the world to complete the first phase of certification training to implant the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart... read more

La Pitié Hospital Performs its 200th Implant
of the World’s Only Approved Total Artificial Heart

Feb. 18, 2010

On Feb. 18, SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, announced that Groupe hospitalier de la Pitié-Salpétrière (La Pitié) in Paris has performed 200 implants of the Total Artificial Heart, more than any other hospital in the world... read more

Total Artificial Heart Recipient Celebrates 10 Years of Life with Donor Heart

Feb. 16, 2010

On Feb. 22, Bill Wohl, a former recipient of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, will celebrate 10 years of enjoying life to the fullest with the donor heart he received at University Medical Center on Feb. 22, 2000... read more

Leading Expert in Hemodynamics
Aims to Use New Emulator Technology
to Eliminate Blood Clotting in Cardiovascular Devices

Feb. 9, 2010

On Jan. 22, Danny Bluestein, PhD, Professor of Bioengineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) Stony Brook, in collaboration with Marvin J. Slepian, M.D., Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) at the University of Arizona, submitted a Phase II Quantum Grant proposal to the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)... read more

3 New Centers Begin Certification Training
to Implant SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart

Feb. 3, 2010

On Feb. 1 and 2, surgical teams from Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, Yeditepe University Hospital in Istanbul and University Hospital of Bordeaux in France, completed the first phase of certification training in Paris to implant the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart... read more

German Man Bridged-to-Transplant After 615 Days of Life
with SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart

Jan. 26, 2010

Bobby Dhawan, 51, is the owner of a successful taxi service in Germany. Normally, he does not allow bumper stickers to be placed on his cabs, but recently, he made a special exception for a sticker which reads, “Don’t take your organs to heaven - heaven knows we need them here!”... read more

Successful Artificial Heart Pursued by Many, Achieved by One

Jan. 19, 2010

SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart, has announced the launch of its new website to educate visitors that the artificial heart isn’t science fiction: it’s real, it works and it’s saving lives... read more