Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure who are Black or female were less likely to receive a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation compared with White and male beneficiaries. Between ...

Decatur, Ga.-based Emory Heart and Vascular Center completed its 500th left ventricular assist device implantation. This year alone, Emory surgeons have implanted approximately 60 LVADs and expect to ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2006;3(7):346-347. Since the first widespread clinical application of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for patients with end-stage heart failure in the late 1980s ...

There is no clearly established strategy for the treatment of a patient with cardiomyopathy and a symptomatic aneurysm of the thoracic aorta. We report the successful use of an approach combining ...

SALT LAKE CITY- Surgeons at University of Utah Hospital have performed the hospital’s first implant of a new generation left ventricular assist device (LVAD) using the HeartWare HVAD. The tiny, ...

• Compared to heart transplantation, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation with this new device resulted in significantly improved renal function in patients with pre-existing renal ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Anemia is common in adults with advanced heart failure before and after receiving a left ventricular assist ...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Terumo Heart, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Terumo Corporation, today announced that a patient implanted with the DuraHeart™ Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) has surpassed ...

At present, the donor pool for cardiac transplantation cannot meet receipients' demands. Ventricular assist devices (VADs) help prolong survival of patients suffering from end-stage heart failure and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA has identified Medtronic’s recall of its ventricular assist device implant kit as Class I recall, the ...