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Number of SynCardia Systems' temporary artificial hearts to grow in 2006

Published in Biotech Business Week, March 13th, 2006

Rodger Ford, CEO of SynCardia Systems, Inc., told stockholders at the Tucson-based company's annual meeting that the number of hospitals certified to use the company's CardioWest Total Artificial Heart-temporary (TAH-t) is expected to grow from nine transplant hospitals worldwide in 2005 to 28 in 2006.

The TAH-t is the only FDA-approved device capable of providing circulatory restoration in morbidly ill patients with irreversible biventricular failure, bridging them to transplantation when a donor human heart becomes available.

According to Ford, SynCardia will add two hospitals a month to its implant program, making the TAH-t life-saving technology...

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