Over those two years of check-ups and ultrasounds, doctors found that his heart was actually recovering and getting stronger ...

MIAMI - Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute is celebrating its 75th LVAD heart implant. It's a device that keeps the heart going when the heart doesn't function on its own. Ted Spinelli thought he ...

Marvin Slepian, former chairman of the International Society for Mechanical Circulatory Support, or ISMCS, said Chinese ...

Medically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MDMedically reviewed by Christopher Lee, MD A ventricular assist device (VAD) is a mechanical pump implanted in the heart to help the heart pump blood throughout ...

A man in his 50s known to have heart failure with left ventricular assist device presented after a suicide attempt by cutting the device’s driveline at home. This occurred in the context of functional ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Left ventricular assist devices or LVADs for short have been around in some form since the 1960s. The devices were once used as a bridge to keep patients alive until a heart ...

Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...

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 ...