Joanne Matos, 37, was born with an enlarged heart and has congestive heart failure. Despite a stroke and two silent heart ...

three of which occurred during surgery. There have been multiple advancements in the field of left ventricular assist devices. Magenta Medical is developing the ‘world’s smallest heart pump ...

India's top Army hospital has successfully performed the country's first government-based LVAD implantation, akin to a 'mechanical heart', offering new hope to patients with end-stage heart failure.

The NYU team says it believes this is the first documented case of a patient with a mechanical heart pump ... surgery at NYU ...

However, if the pump stops ... the Utah Artificial Heart Team (UAHT) nurses selected a group of nurses with years of thoracic surgery ICU experience to provide care for LVAD patients.

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) are mechanical pumps that help circulate ... for patients awaiting heart transplants or those who are not candidates for surgery. Recent research has focused ...

known as a ventricular assist device, or VAD, with the brand name of BrioVAD System. Daneshmand has worked with heart pumps for about 20 years. “We’ve gone from ‘How do we stop these people ...

Continuous types can be further subdivided based on the biomechanics of the pump ... For right-heart support, the cannulas are inserted into the right atrium or the right ventricular apex ...