NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hooking seriously-ill children to a pump that assists the heart helps them live longer than those hooked to a heart-lung machine while they await a heart transplant, doctors report in a new study. "The device did well; more than 80% made it to transplant," Dr. Daphne Hsu, chief of pediatric cardiology at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York, told Reuters Health. Hsu was not an author of the New England Journal of Medicine study, but was on the committee that looked at strokes and other serious side effects of the therapy. ... Original Source
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