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World's Smallest Heart Pump 'A Game-changer' in Keeping Failing Hearts Going Without Major Surgery

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The Impella 5.5 is the world’s smallest heart pump that can keep a heart going during critical moments of heart failure or cardiogenic shock.

Cardiologists don’t even need to open a chest cavity to install the device.

21-year-old Katrina Penney was born with congenital heart defects but the transplant she received also failed when she was 19 .

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