Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Advisory on Artificial Heart
Posted on: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 15:01 CDT
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
EVENT: PRESS CONFERENCE via CONFERENCE CALL: ARTIFICIAL HEART COMING TO ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON DATE/TIME: TODAY - WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, 2006 3:00 p.m. DIAL IN NUMBER: (866) 285-7780 ACCESS CODE: 4996944 CONTACT: JOHN PATELLA (732) 937-8520 (732) 437-0250 - pager
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital will be one of the few hospitals in the nation to offer the first fully-implantable artificial heart. A conference call for news media has been scheduled for 3 p.m. today, Wednesday, September 6, 2006, with Mark Anderson, MD, the hospital's chief of the Section of Cardiac Surgery, and an associate professor of surgery at UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
The AbioCor Implantable Replacement Heart, made by Abiomed, was approved for use yesterday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The company has identified Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Maryland, and Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, and the first sites where the heart will be offered.
Source: Business Wire
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