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

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill ... called a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which helps pump blood ...

India's top Army hospital has successfully performed the country's first government-based LVAD implantation, akin to a 'mechanical heart', offering new hope to patients with end-stage heart failure.

However, if the pump stops ... the Utah Artificial Heart Team (UAHT) nurses selected a group of nurses with years of thoracic surgery ICU experience to provide care for LVAD patients.

three of which occurred during surgery. There have been multiple advancements in the field of left ventricular assist devices. Magenta Medical is developing the ‘world’s smallest heart pump ...

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are mechanical pumps that help circulate ... for patients awaiting heart transplants or those who are not candidates for surgery. Recent research has focused ...

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 ...

known as a ventricular assist device, or VAD, with the brand name of BrioVAD System. Daneshmand has worked with heart pumps for about 20 years. “We’ve gone from ‘How do we stop these people ...