In 2006, Steve Pitkin suffered a serious heart attack while hiking above Salt Lake City with his daughter. The main artery in Pitkin’s heart was completely blocked, leaving 70% of his left ventricle ...

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 ...

Although structural and functional heart "recovery" sometimes follows implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in patients with end-stage heart failure (HF), allowing pump removal, such ...

A multicenter team of researchers within the NIH-funded Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network (CTSN), led by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, have found end-stage heart failure patients who ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A celebration was held Tuesday at Sentara Heart Hospital for patients with heart failure who are now living a normal life thanks to an implanted device. Not all patients with ...

Background Approximately one million individuals live with heart failure in the UK, and clinicians diagnose around 200 000 ...

In patients with advanced heart failure, left ventricular assist device implantation was linked to better 2-year survival than heart transplantation when wait-list time was accounted for, researchers ...

Tecarfarin, which recently received Orphan Drug Designation from the FDA for the prevention of thromboembolism and thrombosis in patients with an implanted mechanical circulatory support device, has ...

Black people and women with severe heart failure who might be good candidates for surgery to implant a heart-assisting device have a lower chance of actually getting that operation than white patients ...