NEW YORK -- Harold E. Doley, Jr. had just weeks to live by the time he decided to get a life-saving procedure at NewYork- Presbyterian. He is fifty-year member of the New York Stock Exchange who ...

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 ...

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 ...

For some patients, a percutaneous left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may increase the risk of subsequent aortic regurgitation (AR), especially when there’s a need for longer support, new data ...

The majority of patients with an older left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as destination therapy did not exhibit cognitive decline over time, despite a high frequency of strokes, researchers found.

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 ...