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...permanent implant; all died in less than two years. But the device helped buy time for 150 patients who relied on an implant until a heart transplant was possible. Last week the Food and Drug Administration stunned medical researchers by recalling the Jarvik heart, which is made by Symbion, a Tempe, Ariz., company...
Citing "serious deficiencies" in manufacturing quality, training and other areas, the FDA banned further use of the $22,000 mechanism. Symbion said last week that it will continue to sell the devices outside the U.S. American doctors have alternatives, however, since three other firms now make heart- pumping aids...
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