SALT LAKE CITY, April 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- World Heart Corporation (WorldHeart; Nasdaq: WHRT), a developer of mechanical circulatory systems, announced today that Inova Fairfax Hospital (Inova) in Falls Church, Virginia has successfully implanted its first Levacor(TM) Ventricular Assist Device (VAD).

HOUSTON, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The wait is over for 16-year-old Francesco "Frank" De Santiago. On January 29, De Santiago received a donor heart in a successful nine-hour transplant operation at Texas Children's Heart Center.

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