Decatur, Ga.-based Emory Heart and Vascular Center completed its 500th left ventricular assist device implantation. This year alone, Emory surgeons have implanted approximately 60 LVADs and expect to ...

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 ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2006;3(7):377-386. Special silicone cannulae connect the blood pumps to the body (Figure 2). These cannulae are anastomosed to the right atrium and pulmonary artery for ...

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.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The HeartMate II Left Ventricular ...

This analysis evaluates the relationship between hospital care delivery network fragmentation and in-hospital and 90-day outcomes. These networks may be novel targets for improving outcomes.

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 ...

About The Study: This randomized clinical trial found that in patients with advanced heart failure treated with a fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device, avoidance of aspirin as ...

Select patients with heart failure fitted with an implantable left ventricular assist device can be safely moved to a stepdown unit (SDU) from intensive care unit (ICU), reducing costs, reported ...

Connex Biomedical Inc. applied for patent protection for a transcardiac access port affixed and retained post-procedure on the cardiac muscle, such as the ventricular myocardium, and an access port ...