Sentence examples for heart implants from inspiring English sources

Nationwide, Biotronik accounts for just over 5 percent of the market for heart implants, according to industry estimates.

At issue is a 2.3 percent fee on medical devices sold in the United States, like heart implants and artificial joints.

The F.D.A. Center for Devices and Radiological Health, which oversees scores of critical products like heart implants, imaging equipment and infusion pumps, has come under particular scrutiny.

It was a landmark episode brought to light by two Minneapolis cardiologists that changed the way the medical device industry deals with the safety of heart implants.

A Veterans Affairs study that followed 70 patients over three months found that remote monitoring of their heart implants freed up eight days of time doctors would otherwise have devoted to office visits.

Two events last week involving mechanical heart implants have raised questions about whether research should focus on devices that replace the heart completely, or on ones that assist the heart by taking over some of its pumping.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that he had a heart pump implanted last week to combat congestive heart failure.

In 2010, the former vice president had a left ventricular assist device, a battery-powered heart pump, implanted by surgeons.

The company has experienced unexpectedly weak growth in the heart implant business, which was its main reason for acquiring Guidant.

Matthew Green, 40, became the first UK patient to receive a plastic heart implant at Papworth hospital, Cambridgeshire, in August 2011.

The policy was surprising for Jewish Hospital, which has aggressively sought publicity for the artificial heart implant and an earlier advance, the first hand transplants in this country.