Picard Medical patient receives heart transplant after four years on artificial heart

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Picard Medical / SynCardia Announce Successful Four-Year Bridge to Transplant with SynCardia Total Artificial Heart Support

March 17, 2026 7:00 AM EDT

TUCSON, Ariz., March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Picard Medical, Inc. (NYSE American: PMI) (the Company), parent company of SynCardia Systems LLC, maker of the worlds first total artificial heart approved by both the U.S. FDA and Health Canada, today announced that a 29-year-old patient successfully received a donor heart transplant after living for more than four years supported entirely by the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart.

The patient was implanted with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart on September 2, 2021, after developing severe biventricular heart failure. The device replaced the pumping function of both... More