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Ventracor reports British Standards Institute's approval of CE Marking for implantable blood pump

Published in Physician Law Weekly, January 17th, 2007

Ventracor announced the British Standards Institute (BSI) has approved CE Marking for the VentrAssist left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which allows Ventracor to market and sell the VentrAssist throughout Europe.

Three new centers have enrolled their first VentrAssist patients, which brings the total of patients on whom the system has been used to 80 at 12 centers.

In France, the Hospital Cardiologique Louis Pradel in Lyon and the Institute du Thorax in Nantes treated patients under the BRACE Clinical Study.

In the U.S., the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics in Minneapolis treated a patient under the U.S....

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