WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — More than a year ago, Novant Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute announced it was offering a new procedure that would help patients with advanced heart failure. Back in ...

Obese patients with heart failure are more likely to meet eligibility criteria for a heart transplant if they first undergo bariatric surgery and receive a left ventricular assist device, according to ...

The advanced heart failure team at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden has successfully performed the health system’s first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. LVADs are ...

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 ...

Singapore, 27 March 2025 – The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) has successfully introduced a percutaneous procedure (with a balloon and stent) that transforms how complications in mechanical ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Innovation in left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) has reached the point that routine left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion has little to offer anymore in the way of ...

PHILADELPHIA - Patients with obesity are at higher risk of developing heart failure. And yet, many obese patients face obstacles to getting heart transplants, as recovery is considered to be more ...