- Current report filing (8-K)

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

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CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of

the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) August 3, 2011

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WORLD HEART CORPORATION

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

Delaware		000-28882		52-2247240
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

4750 Wiley Post Way, Suite 120, Salt Lake City, Utah				84116
(Address of principal executive offices)				(Zip Code)

(801) 355-6255

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code

Not Applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

Beginning on August 3, 2011, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of World Heart Corporation (the “Company”) will use the presentation materials furnished as Exhibit 99.1 hereto, in connection with investor presentations.

The investor presentation materials being furnished herein in Exhibit 99.1 are dated August 3, 2011, and the Company does not undertake to update the materials after that date. The investor presentation materials include “safe harbor” language pursuant to the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended, indicating that certain statements about the Company’s business and other matters contained in the investor presentations materials are “forward-looking” rather than “historic”. The investor presentation materials also state that a more thorough discussion of certain factors which may affect the Company’s operating results is included, among other sections, in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, its quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other public filings, which are filed with the SEC from time to time and available at the SEC’s website ( http://www.sec.gov ).

The investor presentation materials are also available on the Company’s website at www.worldheart.com .

Information contained herein, including Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed filed for the purposes of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, nor shall such information and Exhibit be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit 99.1

Investor Presentation of World Heart Corporation dated August 3, 2011

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.