The FDA today issued a notice informing customers of updated instructions for the Johnson & Johnson Abiomed Impella RP heart pump.

A national clinical trial is underway to compare a novel mechanical heart pump to the only device currently used to treat end-stage heart failure. The INNOVATE study, led by University of Michigan, wi ...

On Valentine's Day 2022, two cardiac patients met in the ICU at a New York Hospital. They became friends and lent each other ...

Joanne Matos, 37, was born with an enlarged heart and has congestive heart failure. Despite a stroke and two silent heart ...

At the initial meeting in the patient's ICU room, they are given an LVAD education manual. [14] Usually this introduction and training consists of an overview of the pump for all family members ...

Two-time cancer survivor Tracy Meier received a heart transplant just after winning a Griffins fan trip. Now the team is ...

The development of left ventricular assist devices could be considered an 'imaginative leap'. In the current phase of critical evaluation of these devices, a study of patients who received first ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps that take over the function of the damaged ventricle in order to re-establish normal hemodynamics and end-organ blood flow. In addition, VADs unload ...

A unique way to celebrate Valentine's Day is available to some special patients and their families of Georgia's Heart Institute.