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Picard Medical / SynCardia Highlight Second Successful Total Artificial Heart Bridge to Transplant at UCSF Health
Case highlights young patient supported for 119 days with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart before successful heart transplantationTUCSON, Ariz., March 19, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Picard Medical, Inc. (NYSE American: PMI) (the "Company"), parent company of SynCardia Systems LLC, maker of the world's first total artificial heart approved by both the U.S. FDA and Health Canada, today highlighted a case reported by UCSF Health in which a patient in his twenties with advanced biventricular heart
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