Left Ventricle Assist Devices are Effective
The New HeartAssist 5® supports pediatric patients as small as 18 kg to extra large adults.
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Competition for Effective Therapies
By the year 2000, over 50 companies had plunged into the heart
assist device industry to address the growing need for effective
treatments. The complexities involved with assisting or replacing
the human heart caused that number to dwindle to 20 by 2005.
Today, there are only four significant heart assist/replacement device
companies remaining, of which MicroMed is one.
The new HeartAssist 5® supports a full range of patients from extra
large adults to pediatric patients as small as 18Kg.