Elijah Punturi's heart is pumping as he races up and down the basketball court. But it's not pumping on its own. Beneath his ...

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 ...

Monash University clarified that the three devices include BiVACOR's Total Artificial Heart, a new type of Left Ventricle Assist Device (LVAD) that is implanted next to a natural heart to assist in it ...

Supira Medical has raised $120 million to complete the clinical development of its temporary heart pump, designed for ...

The characteristics described in this table are general. The intra-aortic balloon pump has been excluded since to it does not generate its own volume stroke. *Clinical approval of ECMO is variable ...

Patients and families need to know how these extraordinary treatments might change how they feel about themselves and the ...

A protocol for transitioning patients with heart failure and a left ventricular assist device to a stepdown unit from the ICU ...

In a transformative recent study, the Second Heart Assist Inc. Whisper™ device, a next-generation percutaneous mechanical circulatory support (pMCS) system, was shown to cause significantly less ...

New research shows that people who have implanted heart-assist devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators, may safely use magnetic resonance New research shows that people who have implanted ...

India plans to develop cost-effective left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) to aid end-stage heart failure patients while ...