Surgeons at Newark Beth
Israel Medical Center successfully perform New Jersey’s first
heart transplant.
Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center chosen as the only New Jersey hospital to trial the Acorn CorCap
cardiac support device.
The Cardiac Transplant program
ranks third in the northeast and in the top 10 in the USA.
The Heart Failure Treatment
and Transplantation Program is one of only 40 sites in the United States
to participate in a clinical trial of Medtronic's Chronicle device to
telemetrically monitor the condition of heart failure patients, and
the first site on the East Coast to implant the Micromed DeBakey Left
Ventricular Assist Device.
The CardiacTransplant Program
ranks 7th in the Nation.
A heart transplant is successfully
performed at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center on a 15-year-old boy,
the youngest patient transplanted in the state of New Jersey.
Newark Beth Israel Medical
Center receives approval from the Department of Health andSenior Services
to establish the state’s only lung
transplantation service, expected to begin operation in 2007.
38 transplants performed
with 100 percent surgical success.
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