A heart pump no larger than a fountain pen has just been approved by the FDA for use in children, after having already saved adult lives in a revolutionary manner.
Cardiologists do not even need to open a thoracic cavity to install the Impella 5.5The smallest heart pump in the world that can maintain a heart during critical moments of heart failure or heart shock.
Katrina Penney, 21, was born with congenital cardiac malformations, but the transplant she received also failed at the age of 19. For 5 weeks, the Impella kept the failure of the heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured.
“That does all the work for your heart,” Katrina Penney told CBS Philadelphia “It saved my life, 100%. I named my Impell ‘Ella.’ »»
“He is very useful in the sense that he can be implantable without opening his chest,” Dr. Katsuhide Maeda told CBS with the Philadelphia children’s hospital, where Penney was treated. “We are so excited. It’s really like a game changer.
The component of the pump on the impulse only consists of the very point of the aircraft – which is the size of a finger, which Penney says makes all his test seems incredible.
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