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

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

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 ...

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 ...

You wouldn’t know it just by looking at him, but Rufe Vanderpool is a heart ... LVAD is short for “left ventricular assist device.” The device is a battery-operated mechanical pump that ...

It delivers shocks if a dangerous rhythm is detected. Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are mechanical pumps that support heart function in patients with severe heart failure. VAD implantation is ...

TCT 760: Valve In Valve Transcatheter Versus Redo Surgical Replacement of a Failing Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Echocardiographic and Long-Term Outcomes Receive the the ...

WASHINGTON — All eight manufacturers participating in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) residential Cold Climate Heat Pump Challenge (CCHPC) have completed rigorous product field testing, ...

BACKGROUND: The ability to predict recovery of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in response to guideline-directed therapy among patients with nonischemic cardiomyopathy is desired. We sought ...

Meanwhile, another nine- year-old lay on a hospital bed in Cheshire, "painfully thin and being kept alive with a mechanical heart pump". Max's heart had become "dangerously enlarged" after he'd ...