The Impella reduces the heart’s workload while supplying blood and oxygen to other vital organs.

Abiomed has issued an urgent medical device correction for its Impella RP and Impella RP Flex series of heart pumps. In a letter sent to customers on January 27, Abiomed said the voluntary device ...

Johnson & Johnson’s Abiomed has asked customers to quarantine certain Impella devices over a risk linked to four serious injuries, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Abiomed wrote to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Abiomed's Impella 2.5 heart pump helps maintain blood flow during high-risk heart procedures or cardiac shock. Johnson & Johnson ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Class I recall, the highest-level alert, for heart pumps that have been linked to nearly 50 deaths. Impella heart pumps are used for short term ...

Abiomed has issued a recall alert after identifying a cybersecurity risk with its Automated Impella Controllers. In an Oct. 1 alert to customers, the manufacturer directed users to disable the ...

PHILADELPHIA (KFSN) -- When a patient has a heart attack, doctors are working against the clock. Often their heart is too weak to pump enough blood. Cardiologists in major U.S. medical centers are ...

The family of the first patient in Yorkshire to successfully receive one of the world's smallest artificial heart pumps has thanked doctors for "saving his life". John Barrass, 78, from Chesterfield, ...

Patients who once faced life-threatening heart failure returned to St. Luke’s Health-Memorial Thursday afternoon to thank the physicians, nurses and technicians who helped them survive, and to ...