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 ...

All four patients who received pig organs to replace their diseased organs have now died, though researchers involved in ...

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 thanks to an implanted device. Not all patients with heart failure are ...

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

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 ...

Once the mechanical circulatory assist device (MCS) heart pump or left ventricular assist device (LVAD) has done its part to assist the heart in pumping blood to the rest of the body, your heart can ...

Abiomed, also now known as Johnson & Johnson MedTech, issued a recall for its Impella RP with SmartAssist and Impella RP Flex with SmartAssist heart ... left ventricular assist device implantation.

When people have heart failure, it means their heart does not pump as well as it should. Fluid can build up in your feet, ankles, and legs—known as edema—or fluid can build up in your lungs, known as ...