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Houston Teen Gets Artificial Heart

Texas Children’s Hospital 

June 29, 2011 - Taking a human heart out and replacing it with a Total Artificial Heart is rare. Only 900 adults have had a Total Artificial Heart, and it's even rarer for children. But Texas Children's Hospital has performed its first Total Artificial Heart surgery on a Houston teenager. Three weeks later, he is doing well and getting used to his mechanical heart.

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*The Freedom® portable driver is CE approved for use in Europe and undergoing an FDA-approved Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study in the U.S. Through the IDE clinical study, stable Total Artificial Heart patients who meet study criteria may have the option to be discharged from the hospital with the Freedom portable driver, to wait for their matching donor heart at home and in their communities. CAUTION – The Freedom driver is an investigational device, limited by United States law to investigational use.