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Improve Your Quality of Life

More than 300,000 patients have been supported with Impella® heart pumps
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Understanding Heart Disease

Heart failure and coronary artery disease are the #1 cause of death worldwide for both men and women.

  • 300,000+

    Heart disease patients have been treated with Impella heart pumps around the world

  • 8-in-10

    Patients treated with Impella experienced a reduction in heart failure symptoms or improved ejection fraction, in a randomized controlled trial1

How Impella Heart Pumps Work

 

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Our patients are the motivation for all that we do and we take great joy in celebrating every patient success story.

Stories of Heart Recovery

 

Chris Decker

Retired State Trooper Returns to His Active Lifestyle After Receiving Impella Support

 

Morgan Wright

American Ninja Warrior Competitor and Family Man Survives Cardiogenic Shock

 

Pamela Kerr

Sydney Woman Celebrates 90th Birthday After Protected PCI Procedure With Impella®

 

Patient Community

Abiomed collaborates with hospitals on Heart Recovery Reunions, which reunite Impella patients with the medical teams who treated them. These events, hosted at hospitals across the country, provide patients with the opportunity to thank their medical providers, highlight successful Impella programs and protocols and acknowledge the exceptional dedication and care of the medical staff.

References

  1. O’Neill, W.W., et al. (2012). Circulation, 126(14), 1717-1727.
  2. Joseph, S.M., et al. (2016).  J Interven Cardiol, 29(3), 248-256.

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