Left-sided heart failure occurs when the left ventricle of the heart is unable to adequately pump blood to the rest of the body. This is the most prevalent type of heart failure and it becomes ...

Ancora Heart kicked off a European clinical study for its device designed to directly repair an enlarged left ventricle from the inside, as a treatment for patients suffering from heart failure. The ...

Ancora Heart, Inc., a medical device company developing a transcatheter device-based therapy to address heart failure (HF), ...

After enrolling the first patient at the top of this year in a pivotal trial of its ventricle-reshaping heart failure treatment, Ancora Heart has netted $80 million in funding to carry its device ...

Children with congenital complete atrioventricular block often require lifelong pacemaker therapy. Although such therapy restores a normal heart rate, it also results in dyssynchronous left ...

In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to ...

ENTRESTO The FDA has approved Entresto for the treatment of symptomatic heart failure with systemic left ventricular systolic dysfunction in pediatric patients aged 1 year and older. The Food and Drug ...

A new approach to PET imaging offers a promising way for physicians to promptly identify patients who are at risk for poor ...

Certain heart conditions, including a heart attack, may contribute to an enlarged heart. In these instances, a doctor may recommend left ventricular reconstructive surgery to prevent further ...