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

Dr. Hamad says a VAD, or ventricular assist device, moves oxygen-rich blood from the base of the heart to the aorta, the body's main blood vessel. The pump is powered by a battery pack ...

Several dozen people gathered at Clovis Community Medical Center to celebrate patients living with a Left Ventricular Assist ...

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

Some patients with advanced heart failure can benefit from the support of a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (CF-LVAD) to sustain heart function. However, despite improvements managing ...

High blood pressure is linked to a myocardial anatomical change called LVH. Learn how to offset left ventricular thickening ...

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 ...

Like Rufe before her, Lila Hedgepeth uses an LVAD too. Watch ... The device is a battery-operated mechanical pump that is surgically implanted in the heart of patients to pump their blood.

but also enable rapid access to life saving heart pumps. This study aims to take the guess work out of deciding when a patient has reached the ideal time for LVAD implementation," said Jennifer ...

I started to get coughs and chest pain that seemed to come out of nowhere. Exercise got a lot harder. I was 26 and ran a fitness boot camp, so I was relatively fit. But one day, I couldn’t keep ...

and ventricular hypertrophy as a thickening of the heart walls. The condition can cause the heart to fail to pump blood ...

Abbott has announced a new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial designed to improve outcomes in patients with worsening heart ...