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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

In fact, one of the UAHT goals for the future is to include LVAD education in advanced cardiac life support or basic life support courses, just as automatic external defibrillator device education ...

The new technique uses a balloon and stent to clear blockages in LVADs. The National Heart Centre Singapore has introduced a ...

A ventricular assist device (VAD) helps pump blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It’s used when your heart is not able to pump enough blood on its own. The device consists of a pump, tubes ...

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 ...