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Heart Bypass Surgery

Recent findings in heart bypass surgery described by M.A. Mariani and colleagues

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, October 21st, 2007

"We describe the use of a novel device, the pulsatile catheter pump, in patients with left ventricular dysfunction undergoing off-pump coronary surgery. During a 1-year period, 14 patients ( mean ejection fraction 28% +/- 8%) underwent off-pump coronary surgery using the pulsatile catheter pump," scientists in Netherlands report.

"We recorded neither mortality nor major adverse cardiovascular and cerebral events. Mean support time was 55 +/- 13 minutes. The average flow generated by the pulsatile catheter pump, as calculated per patient, was 2.4 +/- 0.2 L/min (range, 2.2 to 2.8 L/min)," wrote M.A. Mariani and colleagues.

The researchers concluded:...

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