Artificial Heart Provides Bridge to Transplant

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Published May 26, 2013 at 1:54 PM CDT

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Dr. Hector Ventura leads the Ochsner team that implanted the "Total Artificial Heart" for the first time in February. Their patient, a father of five now awaiting a matching donor heart, was the first in the Gulf Coast region to receive the device.