AUGUSTA, Ga. (WFXG) - Piedmont Augusta Hospital successfully completed its 200th left ventricular assist device (LVAD) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikToker Sofia Hart documents life with an LVAD — a device that keeps her heart pumping — while she awaits a heart transplant When ...

Since the introduction of durable left ventricular assist devices for advanced heart failure, management of antithrombotic ...

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 ...

Physicians at Washington, D.C.-based MedStar Washington Hospital Center have completed the 300th implant of the HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device, which treats patients with advanced heart ...

DANVILLE, Pa. — It's called a Left Ventricular Assist Device or LVAD for short. To some, it may look like a random piece of medical equipment, but to Susanne Brown of Williamsport, it's what saved her ...

Female recipients of a left ventricular assist device tend to have worse clinical outcomes compared to their male counterparts, according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure from researchers at ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Six and a half years ago, Drake Foster thought he was in good health. "I was 21 years old, living a 21-year-old's life," Foster said. "I was pretty fit, did a manual labor job, and one ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Sometimes treatments, medications and even a transplant won’t do the trick for patients with heart failure. They are left with only one option: getting a rare heart device implanted in ...

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