SUNY Poly Assistant Professor Dr. Amit Sangwan and colleagues recently published research titled "Feasibility Testing of the ...

Roughly 1 in 2 wearers of ventricular assist devices are diagnosed with an infection ... With the support of ETH Zurich Professor Edoardo Mazza and physicians from the German Heart Center in Berlin, ...

What are Ventricular Assist Devices? Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are mechanical heart pumps. 1 They use electrical and mechanical technology to support cardiac functioning by helping blood ...

MD A ventricular assist device (VAD) is a mechanical pump implanted in the heart to help the heart pump blood throughout the ...

The characteristics described in this table are general. The intra-aortic balloon pump has been excluded since to it does not generate its own volume stroke. *Clinical approval of ECMO is variable ...

The field of pediatric mechanical circulatory support with ventricular assist devices has lagged significantly behind that of adult patients. However, there is increasing attention on the emerging ...

Worsening heart failure threatened the travel and family time Herman Davis and his wife cherished. But for nearly 3 years, a heart pump called a VAD has given him a quality of life back.