Study investigators cautioned against routine use of the device in complex percutaneous coronary interventions and to treat ...
Two separate randomized trials of Johnson & Johnson’s miniaturized Impella heart pumps failed to illustrate the devices’ ...
Randomized trials neutral for pump device in complex elective cases, STEMI with reperfusio ...
This screenshot from an Abiomed video demonstrates placement of the Impella 2.5 and Impella CP. Delivered in a minimally invasive way, Impella pumps actively unload the heart, aiding native heart ...
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Abiomed recalled its Impella left sided blood pumps for risk that the devices could perforate the heart during a procedure. The recall began on Dec. 27 with Abiomed ...
When he was 25 years old, Thorsten Siess, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Aachen in Germany had an idea: What if there was a way to keep the heart pumping blood during surgery or ...
Johnson & Johnson’s Abiomed division is once again the subject of a Class I recall for its Impella heart pumps, this time pertaining to a potential safety conflict in patients with transcatheter ...
Another observational study has questioned whether Impella ventricular assist pumps (Abiomed) should be used in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS), at ...