1.   The company is seeking approval of its electric HeartMate, an implantable device that helps a damaged heart pump blood, while patients await a heart transplant.

2.   The hospital did an angiogram and discovered the injury to the artery, which runs along the spine and pumps blood into the brain, Lewis said.

3.   The panel also agreed the drug could help a weak heart pump blood better.

4.   In ARVD, the muscle cells of the right ventricle, which pumps blood to the lungs, die and are replaced with fatty, fibrous tissue.