1. Patients would need to have brain pumps implanted or have genetically altered cells infused into their brains. 2. Several patients at the German Heart Institute have had the bigger pumps implanted. 3. She reassured him that getting a pump implanted was no big deal. 4. That seminar at Miami Valley Hospital led to surgery in October in which a morphine pump was implanted in his abdomen and connected to his spinal fluid. 5. The pump was implanted in September, when Sapos was so weak that a human transplant operation was considered too risky. 6. The technology is advancing so rapidly that doctors expect pumps to be implanted permanently in patients as an alternative to heart transplants within a few years. 7. Ultimately, he had a pump implanted in his abdomen that dispenses morphine into his spine. 8. He implanted miniature pumps in their brains to bathe neurons with an experimental caspase-inhibiting chemical called zVAD-fmk. |