March 5, 2012 — SynCardia Systems Inc., manufacturer of the world’s first and only U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Canada and Conformité Européenne (CE) approved Total Artificial Heart, announced that 18-year-old Jordan Merecka was successfully bridged to a heart transplant at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas, after 160 days of support with the SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart.