PITTSBURGH —

A device that has been used to keep former Vice President Dick Cheney’s heart functioning is now being used on patients in Pittsburgh.The device is being used on patients like Cheney, who have severe congestive heart failure, but are not candidates for transplants.At UPMC’s Artificial Heart Institute, it’s being referred to as a destination device, the destination being life.”What it does is take blood from the left ventricle — …… (more…)