Large-bore devices and longer time on support each up the risk. A study author calls for awareness, not alarm.

Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure who are Black or female were less likely to receive a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation compared with White and male beneficiaries. Between ...

While we cannot confirm what caused the apparent lump under Trump's suit, or what the shape under his shirt was, we found it highly unlikely that he was wearing an LVAD. Implanting the device requires ...

With approval, the HeartMate 3 System offers physicians in Europe the most advanced ventricular assist technology available to support the management of patients with advanced stage heart failure ST.

CorWave presented positive interim results from its first-in-human study of the CorWave Left Ventricular Assisting System ...

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 ...

Every year, around 50,000 people in the United States experience cardiogenic shock - a life-threatening condition, usually caused by a severe heart attack, in which the heart can't pump enough blood ...

Seven years after going into congestive heart failure, Edwin Smith (and his left ventricular assist device) took home the ...

Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...

Modelling and simulation is the key to efficient design and development. Engineers, researchers and scientists in the life ...