A new biological patch, designed from heart cells grown in the laboratory, could bring a glimmer of hope in the treatment of ...

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

Joe Silver, 32, who lives in Harrogate with his wife of five years, Charlotte, also 32, said their first and only child, Billy, was not breathing when he was born four weeks prematurely.

A father told to say his goodbyes to his baby after the first of two open-heart surgeries before his first birthday described ...

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The LVAD, often regarded as a ‘mechanical heart’, serves as a life-saving bridge for patients with end-stage heart failure, officials said. The procedure was successfully performed at the Army ...

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.

An MCS, such as an LVAD, is a mechanical pump surgically implanted into the patient’s chest to support heart function and blood flow ... Secondly, the data collection was limited to one cardiac ...

A heart-lung machine is a piece of medical equipment that temporarily takes over the work of the heart and lungs, circulating oxygenated blood throughout the body. Also called a cardiopulmonary bypass ...

The heart consists of four chambers. The top two chambers — the left and right atria — receive blood. The bottom two chambers — the left and right ventricles — pump blood from the heart.

The function of the heart is to pump the blood that bathes and nourishes every organ ... and the diastolic pressure (the pressure during ventricular relaxation) is 80 mmHg. Read about measuring blood ...