GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A 16-year-old girl in severe multi-organ system and heart failure is the first in Florida to receive the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart, the only approved mechanical device that eliminates the symptoms and source of heart failure.
University of Florida Health surgeons implanted the device in early June in an effort to stabilize Sanford, Fla., teenager Nalexia “Lexi” Henderson so she would be healthy enough to survive transplant when a donor heart becomes available.
UF Health Shands Hospital is the first in Florida to become a SynCardia certified center. Certification requirements include SynCardia training and lectures, preparing to perform an implant, and actually performing the first implant with a surgeon in the operating room who is experienced in placing the SynCardia Heart.
The SynCardia and UF Health care teams on Wednesday switched Lexi to the Freedom Portable Driver, a wearable power supply for the SynCardia heart. The driver is the first wearable power supply for the SynCardia heart and is undergoing a Food and Drug Administration investigational device exemption clinical study in the United States.
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