Cardiac surgeons at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center, part of the Hackensack Meridian health system, performed the first-in-human Impella RP Flex heart pump implant on Nov. 8.

Bioengineers have used cardiovascular data from individual patients to print soft models of their hearts that could someday be used to optimize TAVR.

A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant.

Impella BTR, which received FDA IDE approval in December 2021, is a percutaneous forward flow heart pump, with up to greater than six liters of blood flow per minute.

A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant.

A 54-year-old woman from New Jersey became the first patient to undergo a combined heart pump implant and pig kidney transplant.

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.