Press Releases
- Highest bridge to human heart transplant rate of any heart device, 79%
- Over 1,000 implants account for more than 250 patient years on the Total Artificial Heart
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SynCardia Posts Record Revenue and Profit in Q1 2012
May 17, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced record-setting revenue for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, due in part to Certified Centers performing a record number of implants of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart... read more
8 SynCardia Certified Centers & Surgeons Honored
for Use of Total Artificial Heart at ISHLT
May 3, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, honored eight SynCardia Certified Centers and surgeons for their use of the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart and the Freedom® portable driver during the annual meeting of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) held April 18-21 in Prague, Czech Republic... read more
Retired Pro Hockey Player 1st to Receive Total Artificial Heart
in Upstate New York
April 26, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that retired professional hockey player and two-time Olympian, Gaetano "Gates" Orlando, has become the first person in upstate New York to receive the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. The 49-year-old, who played for the Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans, as well as the Italian national team in the 1994 and 1998 Olympics, received the Total Artificial Heart on April 4, at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC)... read more
SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart Receives HUD Designation
for Destination Therapy from FDA
April 12, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a Humanitarian Use Device (HUD) designation for the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart to be used for destination therapy in addition to its current PMA approval as a bridge to transplant... read more
Record Number of ISHLT Abstracts Discuss SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart
April 5, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that this year's annual meeting of the International Society for Heart & Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) being held April 18-21 in Prague, Czech Republic, features a record number of abstracts discussing the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart... read more
University of Washington Medical Center 1st in Pacific Northwest
to Discharge a Patient Without a Human Heart
March 29, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that on March 21, University of Washington (UW) Medical Center became the first hospital in the Pacific Northwest to discharge a patient without a human heart. Christopher Marshall, 51, is now waiting for a matching donor heart in Seattle using the Freedom® portable driver to power his SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart... read more
University of Kentucky Medical Center Discharges
State's 1st SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Patient
March 21, 2012
SynCardia Systems, Inc., manufacturer of the world's first and only FDA, Health Canada and CE (Europe) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced today that on March 5, University of Kentucky Medical Center (UK) in Lexington discharged its first patient to be implanted with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart. Zack Poe, 20, is the first patient in the state to leave the hospital to wait for a matching donor heart at home using the Freedom® portable driver to power his Total Artificial Heart... read more
