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

At night, the machine's whirring often keeps him awake ... In October, Mr Lynskey's heart pump failed and he had to have a newer LVAD fitted in hospital. He spent his 22nd birthday in a coma.

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 ...

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 ...

It kept him alive while he waited for a heart transplant. Talk about a machine. Your own heart pumps a gallon and a half blood per minute, and it beats about 100,000 times a day, around 35 million ...

"Living with a heart pump out in the community, being grandfathers, and grandmothers, and husbands, and just really living their lives with advanced treatment," said Dr. Richard Kiel. The hospital ...

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

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.

Poor contraction causes the heart to not pump with enough force for blood to circulate properly. Systolic heart failure happens when the heart pumps at 40% or less of its ejection fraction.

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