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To restore the blood flow to the heart, we needed to open her arteries and insert several drug-coated stents which are wire mesh tubes that prop open arteries. According to Dr. Hodgson, early artifical hearts simulated the natural pulsating action of the natural heart.
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Heartthrobs
The high-tech procedure took place on Oct. 5 at the Richard and Marion Pearsall Heart Hospital at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center. Within this facility's cardiac catheter laboratory, a tiny heart-assist device known as the Impella helped save Lom...
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