The young patient is one of the world’s first to receive cardiac rehabilitation workouts while a device helps her heart pump.

The recipient underwent a six-hour operation in November, surviving on the artificial heart for over 100 days until a donor ...

Around six million Americans have received a diagnosis of heart failure. Heart transplants are considered a gold standard of treatment. But, it’s not always an option. “It is a limited resource, ...

Left ventricular assist devices, which are mechanical heart pumps, are an important treatment for patients with advanced ...

Doctors often treat these patients with a ventricular assist device, an implantable heart pump that assists the weak muscle of the heart’s left ventricle in pumping blood throughout the body.

A celebration was held Tuesday at Sentara Heart Hospital for patients with heart failure who are now living a normal life ...

In addition, VADs unload the native heart allowing it to rest and ... and it is not currently commercially available. The DeBakey LVAD is a small rotary pump with similar characteristics to ...

In general, a pulsatile VAD is paracorporeal ... and fast and safe pump changes if necessary. Berlin Heart Excor. These blood pumps are available in five different sizes with stroke volumes ...

In a first, an Australian man has become the first in the world to live with a durable total artificial heart implant -- made ...

Cardiac surgeons and heart failure specialists at Michigan Medicine ... important because previous LVAD recalls have limited patient’s VAD options. “The availability of only one pump now limits the ...

Advocate Children's Hospital formally launched its pediatric heart transplant program at the Oak Lawn hospital today, having ...