Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, ...

It's implanted into the body's largest blood vessel (aorta), and inflates and deflates with each heartbeat. Cardiologists (heart specialists) and heart surgeons use this ...

The first artificial heart patients were connected to enormous machines. BF: The thing that makes the Bivacor work is this incredible technology—magnets suspend a spinning disc, which pumps the ...

Gisel had postpartum cardiomyopathy, a rare condition that happens after birth in a small percentage of pregnancies. This ...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s Abiomed announced that its compressible, expandable heart pump has cleared a pivotal trial, and it’s now headed for FDA review in the coming months.

His heart was too weak to pump enough blood, and needed mechanical help. "This pump really is surgically implanted to bypass that sick ventricle and give the body all the necessary oxygen through ...

Think of the heart as a pump that works tirelessly every day. But sometimes, this pump starts to weaken, which is what ...

Johnson & Johnson MedTech reported positive data for the Abiomed Impella ECP transvalvular axial flow pump system.

Meanwhile, another nine- year-old lay on a hospital bed in Cheshire, "painfully thin and being kept alive with a mechanical heart pump ... of life-support machines in the 1950s.

The heart and kidneys work together, 24 hours a day, to maintain proper health. The average heart pumps two thousand gallons of blood per day. The kidneys filter about 52 gallons each day. T. Alp ...

Brewer considered putting the young woman on the ECMO, a portable heart and lung machine, but that comes ... Brewer recommended a small heart pump called Impella to assist with improving blood ...