The man, who was diagnosed with congestive heart failure nearly a year ago, believes the decision is based on his vaccination ...

Community Medical Center recently held a celebration for patients who have lived ten years on a mechanical heart pump called LVAD. Not long ago, it would have ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Christine and Kendell Paul were both cardiac patients when they met on Valentine's Day in 2022 in a New York hospital.

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 heart can never rest. That creates a problem for a heart that has lost muscle tissue. “Skeletal muscle has a significant ...