Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March ...

Continuous-flow devices are smaller, lighter, and more simple than pulsatile LVADs and have the potential to fulfill all the requirements of a permanently implanted blood pump. The article by ...

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 ...

Revolutionary balloon and stent procedure reduces recovery time from weeks to days, transforming treatment for patients with mechanical heart pumps.

The treatment was carried out in September 2024 at the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS), which treats cases of ...

These patients get what’s called an LVAD — a left ventricular assist device — which helps pump their blood, and it can truly be a lifesaver. “I was two weeks from being dead — my body ...

At the initial meeting in the patient's ICU room, they are given an LVAD education manual. [14] Usually this introduction and training consists of an overview of the pump for all family members ...

Supira Medical has raised $120 million to complete the clinical development of its temporary heart pump, designed for ...

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 ...

TikToker Sofia Hart documents life with an LVAD — a device that keeps her heart pumping — while she awaits a heart transplant When Sofia Hart wakes up in the morning, she brushes her teeth and ...