There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnson & Johnson's Impella CP heart pump in an illustration of the heart. Johnson & Johnson’s Impella heart pump failed to lower ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Food and Drug Administration issued an early alert for a correction of Abiomed's Impella RP Flex heart pumps. (Courtesy of ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough device designation to Abiomed’s (NASDAQ: ABMD) Impella ECP expandable percutaneous heart ...

WAILUKU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The world’s smallest heart pump has made its way to Maui. Nine months after launching at Maui Memorial Medical Center, the island’s only acute-care hospital, it has saved ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) announces the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's investigational device exemption application to start ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Abiomed Inc Chief Executive Michael Minogue said Tuesday the company's recently launched Impella heart pump could open a potential $2 billion market if the device were to become ...

Abiomed identified an issue where the AIC may fail to detect an Impella pump when connected. This pump detection issue can occur during console-to-console transfer or at the start of a case.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved labeling for the Impella 5.0 and Impella LD heart pumps (Abiomed) has been expanded to allow for longer support time in critically ill patients, the ...

The family of the first patient in Yorkshire to successfully receive one of the world's smallest artificial heart pumps has thanked doctors for "saving his life". John Barrass, 78, from Chesterfield, ...

PHILADELPHIA (KFSN) -- When a patient has a heart attack, doctors are working against the clock. Often their heart is too weak to pump enough blood. Cardiologists in major U.S. medical centers are ...