| 2008
News |
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| July 24 |
Australia’s Largest Transplant Hospital To Begin Certification Training
To Become Asia-Pacific Regional Training Center
for CardioWest Artificial Heart |
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| July 17 |
Innovator of European Portable Driver for Artificial Heart
Joins Penn State Hershey Medical Center
as Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support |
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| May 28 |
2008 SynCardia Annual Shareholders Meeting Projects
Use of CardioWest™ Artificial Heart To Quadruple
Following SynCardia’s Achievement of 2008 Benchmarks |
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| May 22 |
Discharge Driver Brings Sharp and Montreal Heart Institute
Back to the CardioWest™ Artificial Heart |
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| May 6 |
Final Medicare Decision Provides
Maximum Reimbursement to Hospitals for
CardioWest temporary Total Artificial Heart |
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| April 23 |
Mayo Clinic Arizona and VCU Medical Center
Honored for Bridging 100% of
CardioWest Artificial Heart Patients to Transplant in 2007 |
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| April 16 |
Vienna Ventricular Assist Device Leader
Begins Certification Training For
CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart
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| April 9 |
World's First 4-lb Discharge Driver
For Powering CardioWest Artificial Heart
Unveiled at ISHLT in Boston |
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| March 10 |
Rush University Medical Center Begins Certification Training On
CardioWest Temporary Total Artificial Heart |
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| March 6 |
SynCardia Introduces First in Series of
New Internet Patient Education Videos |
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| February 14 |
Female Artificial Heart Patient, 28, Boxes Her Way To Health |
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| February 4 |
Preliminary Decision by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Favors Reimbursement for CardioWest Artificial Heart |
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| January 3 |
CardioWest
Artificial Heart Returns to Utah |
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| 2007
News |
|
| December 12 |
What
Ever Happened to the Jarvik 7 Artificial Heart?
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| December 5 |
Largest
International Certification Training
for CardioWest™ Temporary Total Artificial
Heart
Features Top Heart Transplant Surgeons from Four
Countries |
|
| November 21 |
SynCardia
Founders and Cycling Team
Ride for Cardiovascular Health in 25th El Tour de
Tucson |
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| November 13 |
Director's
Cut Debuts: CardioWest Artificial Heart Implant
Surgery
4X Longer Than Original Video Available on National
Geographic Website
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| October 23 |
University
of Muenster Completes Certification Program
by Implanting Its First CardioWest™ temporary
Total Artificial Heart |
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| October 16 |
SynCardia
Promotes Mike Gaul to COO |
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| October 10 |
University
of Wisconsin,
One of the Most Successful U.S. Heart Transplant
Programs,
Begins Certification Training on CardioWest™
Artificial Heart |
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| September 21 |
Three
Hearts in 13 Days,
Second Chance at Life for Gilbert Woman |
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| September 19 |
Largest
Hospital in Northern Europe
Begins Certification Training on
CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart |
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| September 13 |
Built
by the Giants of Medicine,
CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial Heart
Celebrates 60th Birthday in Kampen, Netherlands
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| August 30 |
Thanks
to Portable Driver Available Only in Europe,
German Heart Institute Berlin
Surpasses Highest Artificial Heart Implant Total |
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| August 28 |
CardioWest™
temporary Total Artificial Heart Chairman
Presents at 36th Annual Southwest Heart Symposium |
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| August 13 |
A
Heart Pioneer: Total Artificial Heart Patient Nears
One-Year Anniversary of Receiving High-Tech Implant
at University of Michigan |
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| August 7 |
CMS Opens
Review of 1980s Non-Coverage Policy For Artificial
Hearts |
|
| July 25 |
German
and French Artificial Heart Patients Enjoy a Better
Quality of Life Than Americans |
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| July 17 |
LDS
Hospital, Key in Pivotal Study of Artificial Heart,
Starts Certification Program For CardioWest™
temporary Total Artificial Heart |
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| July 11 |
Biomedical
Engineer Richard Smith Honored by American Society
for Artificial Internal Organs for Artificial Heart
Leadership |
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| June 21 |
Artificial
Heart Designed For Women Presented at Annual Go
Red For Women Event |
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| June 13 |
1985
Jarvik 7 Transplant Surgery Innovators Meet in Tucson
for CardioWest™ temporary Total Artificial
Heart (TAH-t) Certification Training |
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| May 10 |
"He
has been given a real chance to live once again,"
says wife of region's first recipient of temporary
Total Artificial Heart |
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| April 12 |
CardioWest™
temporary Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t) Manufacturer,
SynCardia Systems, Inc., To Unveil New Companion
Universal Driver System and Family of Future Pulsatile
Devices at ISHLT, April 25 - 28 in San Francisco |
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| March 21 |
Renowned
Biomedical Scientists Come to Tucson to Review the
World's First and Only temporary Total Artificial
Heart |
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| February 19 |
46-Year-Old
Man Receives First Temporary Total Artificial Heart
in Northeast U.S. From Penn Cardiac Surgeons |
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| February 15 |
CardioWest™
Artificial Heart Chairman, Dr. Marvin J. Slepian
to Present at the 4th International Wine and Heart
Health Summit |
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| January 18 |
National
Geographic Cover Story Features CardioWest™
temporary Total Artificial Heart |
