| Newborns, toddlers and teens who suffer from heart failure and need heart transplantation to survive now have a life-saving pediatric heart pump that buys time and allows them to grow stronger as they wait for a donor heart. Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, the lead center in a 17-hospital national Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) study on the German-manufactured Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device (VAD), announced today that the FDA has granted a Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) approval for the EXCOR to be used in US children as a bridge to heart transplantation. www.texaschildrens.org |