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 ...

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As Tucson toddler Tiana Lopez returned home last weekend after a spectacular recovery on an experimental heart device, the same device was pumping for another local baby with life-threatening heart ...

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, ...

The newly studied heart pump device is the size of a AA battery. In this undated stock photo a Dr. listens with stethoscope. STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images New promising data finds that a small heart pump ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Breakthrough technology is transforming the lives of local heart failure patients, offering new hope and improved quality of life. The TriHealth Heart and Vascular Institute is at ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...

Researchers from the University of South Florida developed a novel ventricular assist device that is placed directly inside a failing ventricular cavity to help it pump blood correctly again. This ...

LOS ANGELES -- Clinicians working in advanced heart failure vented their frustrations about the shrinking number of device therapies left from round after round of FDA recalls. Could a changed ...

New promising data finds that a small heart pump device the size of a AA battery could help keep children in need of a heart transplant alive and at home as they wait for a new heart. With this small ...