SynCardia Video Center: Patient Stories
Tammy Lumpkins
- Age: 45 (at implant)
- Diagnosis: dilated cardiomyopathy
- Implant date: Sept. 26, 2011
- Freedom® discharge date: Nov. 9, 2011
- Hospital: Keck Hospital of USC
- Surgeon: Dr. Michael Bowdish
Tammy Lumpkins, 46, left Keck Hospital of USC on Nov. 9, 2011 as the first person on the West Coast to go home with a Total Artificial Heart, using a wearable a power supply called the Freedom driver, which she carries in a backpack.
Video Length: 2:14
*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.
CAUTION – The Freedom driver is an investigational device, limited by United States law to investigational use.
*The SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart was formerly known as the
SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart.
SynCardia temporary CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart.
