The Food and Drug Administration issued its highest-level alert this month about a heart pump associated with reports of 49 ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall, the highest-level alert, for heart pumps that have been linked to nearly 50 deaths. Impella heart pumps are used for short term ...
The recall comes years after surgeons say they first noticed problems with the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3, manufactured by ...
The agency faulted the device maker for delayed notice of mounting complications, citing increasing reports of how use of the device perforated the walls of the heart. By Christina Jewett A ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued its highest-level alert about a heart pump that has been linked to 49 deaths and 129 injuries. The Impella left sided pumps are used to ...
The recall affects the only medical option for many patients with end-stage heart failure who do not qualify for a transplant ...
The FDA announced Monday that two heart pump products are being recalled after reports of 14 deaths and hundreds of injuries ...
The Food and Drug Administration shared updated instructions to doctors on how to use a heart pump. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) The Food and Drug Administration issued its highest-level alert this ...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall, the highest-level alert, for heart pumps that have been linked to nearly 50 deaths. Impella heart pumps are used for short term ...
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Abiomed is recalling the instructions for its Impella left-sided blood pumps after the devices were reportedly linked to 49 deaths. The Danvers-based company was one of the largest medical device ...