Abstract and Introduction Education for Treatment of LVAD Recipients Emerging Issues Surrounding LVAD Recipients Conclusion References The driveline exits the abdomen and attaches to the system ...

A slam dunk in heart care innovation! Hartford HealthCare's LVAD team is bringing together a day of friendly basketball competition and the power of LVAD technology for their patients and care team.

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 ...

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 ...

When Meliza Del Carmen Hohner (Meli) was pregnant with her son, she waited to get the "pregnancy glow." She said it never ...

A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a surgically implanted cardiac assist mechanism which essentially acts mechanically like the heart. One cannula sits in the left ventricle which pulls ...

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Doctors at the 108 Military Central Hospital have successfully performed Vietnam’s first implantation of a third-generation partial artificial heart (LVAD – HeartMate 3).