A decade’s worth of data point to some reduction in vascular complications among US patients receiving percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Still, by 2015, around one in nine ...

Patients who developed late right heart failure (RHF) after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery suffered more major adverse events and had worse survival, researchers found. At 1 month ...

For some patients, a percutaneous left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may increase the risk of subsequent aortic regurgitation (AR), especially when there’s a need for longer support, new data ...

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 ...

The majority of patients with an older left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as destination therapy did not exhibit cognitive decline over time, despite a high frequency of strokes, researchers found.

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 ...

For the advanced heart failure patient, University of Utah Health offers a unique option: to recover your native heart. You can do this with a combination of medications and mechanical heart pumps ...

At the study hospital, pediatric palliative care (PPC) involvement for children with VADs has sharply increased in recent years, according to the new research by Christopher Knoll, MD, and colleagues ...

In August 2016, Stephen Love, a professor of agriculture at the University of Idaho, suffered a massive heart attack. Love was photographing and collecting native wildflowers in the isolated ...