At the largest hospital in Brooklyn, doctors are working to address disparities for patients facing advanced heart failure.

A ventricular assist device (VAD) helps pump blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It’s used when your heart is not able to pump enough blood on its own. The device consists of a pump, tubes ...

Medically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MDMedically reviewed by Richard N. Fogoros, MD A total artificial heart (TAH) is a ...

A Vascular Access Device (VAD) is a medical device designed to provide access to a patient’s bloodstream for various medical treatments, procedures, and interventions. It allows healthcare ...

TikToker Sofia Hart documents life with an LVAD — a device that keeps her heart pumping — while she awaits a heart transplant When Sofia Hart wakes up in the morning, she brushes her teeth and ...

In fact, one of the UAHT goals for the future is to include LVAD education in advanced cardiac life support or basic life support courses, just as automatic external defibrillator device education ...

Called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), they help circulate ... Jim Lynskey, a 22-year-old university student, was fitted with an LVAD in 2015, aged just 19. He is believed to be the ...

Pharmacotherapy for advanced heart failure patients with a HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is being simplified following US Food and Drug Administration approval of a labeling change ...

My condition was severe enough to warrant getting an LVAD (left ventricular assist device), which is basically a pump that’s ...

In a significant medical advancement for the state, Oklahoma Children’s Hospital OU Health has successfully implanted two ...

Other heart pumps, such as the left ventricular assist device (LVAD), can support a damaged ventricle (typically the left ventricle). In contrast, the total artificial heart is designed to replace ...