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2 European Hospitals Begin Certification
to Implant SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart
Dec. 7, 2010
SynCardia Systems, Inc. announced today that the surgical teams from Ljubljana University Medical Center in Slovenia and Ankara University in Turkey have completed the first phase of certification to implant the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart in Paris. The two hospitals are the 59th and 60th transplant centers worldwide to begin the four-phase certification process... read more
SynCardia Co-Founder to Give Keynote Speech at Pumps & Pipes 2010
Dec. 2, 2010
On Dec. 6, Marvin J. Slepian, M.D., Professor of Medicine (Cardiology and Biomedical Engineering) at the University of Arizona and co-founder and chairman of SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, will be one of three keynote speakers at "Pumps & Pipes 4: No Boundaries," held at the Methodist Hospital Research Institute in Houston. The goal of Pumps & Pipes is to foster and build unique research opportunities between energy and medicine – Houston's largest industries - to enhance and develop resources and technologies... read more
Oklahoma Pastor Gives 1st Sermon Since Receiving
SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart
Nov. 30, 2010
Before heart failure stopped him in his tracks, 45-year-old Troy Golden had preached every Sunday for the last 12 years at the New Life Assembly of God in Geary, OK. Too sick to preach for the last six months, on Sunday, Nov. 21, Golden gave his first sermon since receiving the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart and being discharged home using the Freedom® portable driver... read more
University Hospital of Nantes Presents 18-Year Experience
with SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart
Nov. 18, 2010
On Oct. 17, Dr. Jean Christian Roussel from the Thorax Institute at University Hospital of Nantes presented the center's 18-year experience with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart at the Acute Cardiac Care 2010 medical meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. The aim of the single center, retrospective study was to assess both the comorbidity and survival of patients awaiting heart transplants while supported by SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart... read more
2 U.S. Hospitals Begin Certification to Implant Total Artificial Heart
Oct. 28, 2010
SynCardia Systems, Inc. announced today that Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and University of Iowa (UI) Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, have begun certification to implant the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Brigham and Women's will complete Phase I of certification on Nov. 1 & 2, and UI Hospitals and Clinics completed Phase I on Oct. 21 & 22... read more
Ege University Hospital Implants Turkey's 1st Total Artificial Heart
Oct. 19, 2010
On Sept. 30, Ege University Hospital in Izmir performed Turkey's first implant of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. The surgery was led by Prof. Dr. Mustafa Ozbaran, head of the Transplant and Assist Device Program, and proctored by experienced Total Artificial Heart surgeon Dr. Latif Arusoglu... read more
UCSD Medical Center to Begin Certification for Total Artificial Heart
Oct. 14, 2010
SynCardia Systems, Inc. announced today that the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), led by Stuart W. Jamieson, M.B., F.R.C.S., Head of Cardiothoracic Surgery, will begin certification to implant the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Efforts to bring the Total Artificial Heart to UCSD were led by world renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Jack Copeland, who joined the faculty in July... read more
Oklahoma Man 1st in Region to Receive Total Artificial Heart
Oct. 5, 2010
On Sept. 15, 45-year-old Troy Golden of Geary, Okla., became the first person in the region to have his heart replaced with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart at INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center in Oklahoma City. It is a distinction that was years in the making.... read more
SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Wins Australian Award
for Excellence in Medical Technology
Sept. 22, 2010
On Sept. 15, the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart was awarded the 2010 Kerrin Rennie Award for Excellence in Medical Technology by the Medical Technology Association of Australia (MTAA). The award was presented to SynCardia's Australian distributor Device Technologies during the MTAA annual conference. Device Technologies is a major supplier of leading edge medical equipment and consumables to hospitals and healthcare professionals throughout Australia and New Zealand. Device Technologies is a major supplier of leading edge medical equipment and consumables to hospitals and healthcare professionals throughout Australia and New Zealand... read more
St. Vincent’s Hospital Implants Australia’s First Total Artificial Heart
Aug. 19, 2010
On Aug. 5, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney performed Australia’s first implant of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. The patient, a 50-year-old-male suffering from total heart failure, is the first recipient of the Total Artificial Heart in the Southern Hemisphere. The surgery was performed by heart surgeons Drs. Phillip Spratt and Paul Jansz... read more
Total Artificial Heart Manufacturer Launches Industry’s 1st E-Commerce Site
Aug. 11, 2010
On Aug. 11, SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced the launch of its new online store, http://Shop.SynCardia.com. SynCardia is the first company in the mechanical circulatory support industry to make its products available to customers through an e-commerce site 24/7... read more
Michael Garippa Joins SynCardia as President
July 8, 2010
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced today that Michael Garippa, the CEO and President of TandemHeart for the last 8 years, has left the company to become SynCardia’s new president. Rodger Ford will continue as SynCardia’s CEO, concentrating on business development, while Mr. Garippa focuses on sales, clinical support, training and marketing... read more
World’s 1st Total Artificial Heart Patients Discharged Home Using SynCardia’s Freedom® Portable Driver
June 22, 2010
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, announced today that the world’s first three Total Artificial Heart patients have been discharged from SynCardia Certified Centers using the new Freedom® portable driver. Weighing 13.5 lbs, the Freedom driver is the world’s first wearable portable driver designed to power SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart both inside and outside the hospital.... read more
1st SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Patient in U.S. History
Discharged with Freedom® Portable Driver
May 27, 2010
On May 3, a Phoenix-area SynCardia Certified Center became the first hospital in U.S. history to discharge a patient implanted with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart to wait at home for a matching donor heart. This hospital is participating in an FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study of the Freedom® driver, the first ever U.S. portable driver designed to power SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart both inside and outside the hospital... read more
Rapid Onset of Acquired von Willebrand Syndrome Observed with
Ventricular Assist Devices, Not SynCardia Total Artificial Heart
May 20, 2010
The findings of a 12 patient study recently published in Thrombosis and Haemostasis by University Medical Center Freiburg documented that patients implanted with a ventricular assist device (VAD) experienced a rapid onset of acquired von Willebrand syndrome (AVWS), while patients implanted with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart did not. The lead author of the study was Dr. Claudia Heilmann, Head of the Research Department for the Department of Heart and Vascular Surgery at University Medical Center Freiburg... read more
CHRU Tours Performs 1st Implant of SynCardia’s Total Artificial Heart
April 14, 2010
On April 1, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire et Régional de Tours (CHRU Tours) in France, led by Prof. Michel R. Aupart, performed its first implant of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart into a 44-year-old male with ischemic heart disease who had suffered a heart attack that caused both sides of his heart to fail... read more
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
