Newark Beth Israel Patient Celebrates Becoming the Longest-Living New Jersey Resident on LVAD

Описание: Mayra Rodriguez, 42, from Union County, NJ, celebrated her 14th anniversary living with an Abbott HeartMate II™ Left Ventricular Assist Device, a mechanical heart pump that helps the heart pump blood from the left ventricle to the aorta and the rest of the body. She is now the longest-living person in New Jersey with an LVAD and one of the longest-living LVAD patients in the country. Only 40 patients in the United States have lived more than 14 years with this device, implanted at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center by the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment and Heart Transplant Program team. Watch her tell her story.

For more on the Newark Beth Israel Heart Transplant Program: https://www.rwjbh.org/newark-beth-isr...

Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, is a 665-bed regional care teaching hospital that provides comprehensive health care. Newark Beth Israel is a Top Teaching Hospital and home to one of the nation's top 15 heart transplant centers, which has performed more than 1,100 heart transplants; RWJBarnabas Health's Heart Failure Treatment and Transplant Program; New Jersey's only Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program and a Valve Center that performs complex cardiac valve procedures, including minimally invasive transcatheter aortic valve replacements (TAVRs).

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For more amazing Newark Beth Israel mechanical assist device and heart transplant stories: https://www.rwjbh.org/patient-stories...

For more on the Newark Beth Israel Heart Transplant Program: https://rwjbh.org/nbihearttransplant

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