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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We sought to assess how the incidence of RHF changes over time after LVAD implantation and to determine the ...

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 ...

MIAMI - Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute is celebrating its 75th LVAD heart implant. It's a device that keeps the heart going when the heart doesn't function on its own. Ted Spinelli thought he ...

A novel approach to removing excess fluid through the skin and a new strategy to prevent right ventricular failure after LVAD implantation are among the highlights of the January issue of the Journal ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps that take over the function of the damaged ventricle in order to re-establish normal hemodynamics and end-organ blood flow. In addition, VADs unload the ...

Surgeons at Virtua Health, a five-hospital system based in Camden, N.J., successfully performed its first left ventricular assist device implantation, the system announced July 1. The procedure is a ...

San Diego,CA-Patients implanted for bridge therapy with the continuous-flow ventricular assist device (VAD) from HeartWare International fared about as well in a 110-patient extension of the ...

This analysis evaluates the relationship between hospital care delivery network fragmentation and in-hospital and 90-day outcomes. These networks may be novel targets for improving outcomes.

Two surgeons at the University of Arizona Medical Center have performed the world’s first robotic implantation of a ventricular assist device. The Heartware Ventricular Assist Device is a small, ...

Beware a maculopapular rash years after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, according to clinicians describing the phenomenon of LVAD vasculitis in a case series. Three cases of LVAD ...