September 20, 2011 (Boston, Massachusetts) — A lot of people with advanced heart failure are not electively implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) even though they meet the approved ...
When it comes to receiving a new heart, some patients with advanced heart failure may be put at a disadvantage by recent policy changes from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ...
In 2010, Dick Cheney received an LVAD device ahead of a heart transplant, which resulted in him possibly living with no pulse ...
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 ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In some analyses, percutaneous microaxial LVAD for cardiogenic shock was tied to worse outcomes vs. medical ...
New York, NY - Clinical outcomes for the sickest HF patients are far better among those given a left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) as compared with those maintained on inotropic drugs, whether they ...
SEATTLE -- Perhaps the biggest downside of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for people with end-stage heart failure is the substantial risk of strokes they bring. But a new study indicates that ...
CHICAGO – An attempt to employ stem cells to rescue patients from left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) failed to provide benefit to the patients in an National Institutes of Health-supported ...
Physicians from three top institutions report an abrupt and highly troubling increase over the last two years in the incidence of pump thrombosis in patients who have received the HeartMate II left ...
Patients who underwent heart transplant with or without bridge to transplant left ventricular assist device therapy had superior 5-year survival vs. those with LVAD destination therapy when matched on ...
The FDA approved a new, less invasive surgical technique for the placement of Abbott’s best-selling heart pump, allowing patients to avoid open surgery. The HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device ...