Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery is a procedure to place a durable mechanical heart pump into a poorly functioning heart. LVADs help your heart’s lower left chamber (ventricle) pump blood ...

We have published findings on the recovery of heart failure patients following left ventricular unloading with the implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). [1,2] Mechanical indexes ...

Echocardiographic evidence of inefficient unloading of the left ventricle and persistent right ventricle dysfunction determined mortality and HF after left ventricular assist device surgery in a ...

Common practice, and recently published research, shows that the risk of complications with surgery increases in very old or frail adults including those with heart failure. However, a number of ...

When doctors need to develop a treatment plan for older adults with heart failure, the option to pursue surgery is often complicated by whether the patient's constitution is too frail to withstand the ...

DETROIT ¬– Heart failure patients who develop kidney failure after receiving a mechanical heart pumping device are at increased risk of dying within in the first three years of surgery, according to a ...

Heart failure means the heart is no longer able to pump blood to meet the body's needs. End-stage heart failure is the final and most severe stage of the condition that causes severe shortness of ...