A decade’s worth of data point to some reduction in vascular complications among US patients receiving percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Still, by 2015, around one in nine ...

San Diego, CA - In patients receiving left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), the rate of neurological complication was 15% in a single-center study presented at the International Society for Heart & ...

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Left ventricular assist devices are life-prolonging devices for patients with advanced heart failure but they also may leave some patients in poor health with declines in brain function. Risk factors ...

Let's say you're one of the nearly 7 million Americans with heart failure. Your heart’s ability to pump blood is impaired. Despite being on all the right medicines, at doses as high as you can ...

A new generation of implanted devices that help a failing heart function properly is significantly more effective than the previous version, making these new devices an appropriate permanent therapy ...

The newer HeartMate 3 continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) improved on its predecessor in staving off neurological complications among implanted patients, long-term results from the ...

The Incor ® left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) (Berlin Heart AG, Germany) offers effective ventricular support without device-related infection or perioperative bleeding complications, a pilot ...

The final results are in for MOMENTUM 3, the largest left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) trial ever conducted. The study of more than 1,000 patients with severe heart failure not only confirms that ...

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 ...

A 61-year-old man in cardiogenic shock was recently transferred to our hospital. Angiography revealed total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and an 80% ostial stenosis of the ...