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Yale Doctors Implant Smaller Heart Device.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By William Hathaway, The Hartford Courant, Conn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 4--The devices that keep badly damaged hearts pumping keep getting smaller. The newest ones might also be durable enough to keep people like 49-year-old David Warner of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., alive for a decade or more -- and one day reduce demand for heart transplants.

Warner had a C-battery-sized pump implanted into his chest on Aug. 15 at Yale-New Haven Hospital, the first time the Jarvik 2000 device has been implanted in New England, Yale doctors said Wednesday.

Warner, whose heart for almost 20 years had been gradually losing its ability to push blood through its chambers, is thinking again about working, mowing the lawn and exercising.

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