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 with left-sided heart failure who get implanted devices to improve the pumping of their hearts may be more likely to develop heart failure on the opposite side of their hearts if they are pre ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Abbott/Thoratec Corp.’s recall of it’s LVAD implant kit as class I. Blood leakage or air ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) - Piedmont Augusta Hospital successfully completed its 200th left ventricular assist device (LVAD) ...

A study found that patients with end stage renal/kidney disease (ESRD) who undergo left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation had higher 1-year mortality compared with patients with chronic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers observed significant improvement in cerebrovascular hemodynamics after LVAD implant in patients with ...

Mechanical circulatory support is life saving in advanced HF patients who fail to improve or stabilize with optimal medical management, including intravenous inotropes or vasodilatators, intra-aortic ...

Female recipients of a left ventricular assist device tend to have worse clinical outcomes compared to their male counterparts, according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure from researchers at ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — ECU Health is celebrated its seventh Vad-iversary Wednesday. This is the first and only LVAD program in Eastern North Carolina and so far, 77 patients have received LVAD ...