Patients who underwent heart transplant with or without bridge to transplant left ventricular assist device therapy had superior 5-year survival vs. those with LVAD destination therapy when matched on ...

It is possible to improve outcomes in patients with end-stage restrictive or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by use of a left ventricular assist device, which can be considered as a bridge to transplant, ...

The Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Program at Maimonides Medical Center, the first of its kind in Brooklyn, has received advanced certification in Destination Therapy from the Joint Commission.

Since the first LVAD was placed in 1984, more than 6000 of the devices have been placed worldwide (O.H. Frazier, personal communication, January 2002). As LVAD therapy makes the transition from ...

Beverly prepares for her husband’s showering ritual as usual. She spreads the towels across the bed. Robert, so frail that he can barely walk, comes to lie down while she undresses him. She puts the ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – An attempt to employ stem cells to rescue patients from left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) failed to provide benefit to the patients in an National Institutes of Health-supported ...

Left ventricular assist devices are life-prolonging devices for patients with advanced heart failure but they also may leave some patients in poor health with declines in brain function. Risk factors ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), particularly the latest iterations, can greatly increase functional capacity and quality of life for patients with heart failure, more than a decade’s worth of ...

(UPDATED) The HeartWare left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may now be used in the United States as a destination therapy in patients with end-stage heart failure who are not candidates for ...

The HeartMate VE Left Ventricular Assist Device (vented electric abdominally positioned pulsatile blood pump; Thoratec Corp., Pleasanton, CA), approved as a permanent support, or destination therapy, ...