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 ...

NICE, FRANCE — Functionally limited heart-failure patients who received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as destination therapy had significantly improved survival and functional status at 12 ...

LAS VEGAS — Implantation with a left ventricular assist device increased the risk for arrhythmia development, but the presence of arrhythmias did not increase mortality risk in a study presented at ...

Patients with left-sided heart failure who get implanted devices to improve the pumping of their hearts may be more likely to develop heart failure on the opposite side of their hearts if they are pre ...

A study found that patients with end stage renal/kidney disease (ESRD) who undergo left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation had higher 1-year mortality compared with patients with chronic ...

Mechanical circulatory support is life saving in advanced HF patients who fail to improve or stabilize with optimal medical management, including intravenous inotropes or vasodilatators, intra-aortic ...

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 ...

“Today, we’re going to make history,” said 18-year-old Eric Ramos on the day doctors operated on his ailing heart. Eric, who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is one of only three patients in the ...

In August 2016, Stephen Love, a professor of agriculture at the University of Idaho, suffered a massive heart attack. Love was photographing and collecting native wildflowers in the isolated ...