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 ...

Supervised exercise training is safe and improves peak oxygen consumption, walking distance, and quality of life in patients with left ventricular assist devices, per a recent meta-analysis.

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 ...

St. Jude Medical, Inc, a global medical device company, on Tuesday announced approval and launch of the HeartMate 3™ Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) in India. "The HeartMate 3 system allows me ...

After finding out his heart was failing at age 25, Army veteran Keith McCarter finally found the path to get healthy again.

A multi-institution research effort led by Harvard Medical School, Boston, has looked into the safety and efficacy of excluding aspirin from the treatment of patients with advanced heart failure ...

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 ...

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 ...

For patients with severe heart failure that cannot be controlled with medicine, a pacemaker or other treatments, a ventricular assist device can be an option. Dr. Robert Scott, a Mayo Clinic ...

TCT 1805: Successful Multivessel PCI for Severe LV Dysfunction and Anomalous RCA Origin With the Aid of a Novel 9F Expandable Ventricular Assist Device Receive the the latest news, research, and ...

Interstitial Decongestion in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Patients With the eLym System: Percutaneous Device to Support Lymphatic Drainage: The Early Results of the DELTA-HF Feasibility Study ...