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

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

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.

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 ...

Officials in Alabama have released the cause of death of 14-year-old Semaj Wilkins, a freshman football player who died on Aug. 13 after collapsing during practice.

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 ...

Semaj tragically died, and on Thursday an autopsy performed by the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences determined that ...

Officials say a 14-year-old football player who collapsed during practice this summer died from congestive heart failure.

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