A ventricular assist device (VAD) is a temporary or long-term therapy for heart failure. Learn about different types of ...

A woman who doesn’t have a pulse has accumulated thousands of followers on TikTok documenting her life living with end-stage ...

A ventricular assist device (VAD) helps pump blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It’s used when your heart is not able to pump enough blood on its own. The device consists of a pump, tubes ...

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 ...

For weeks, Son Vang thought his persistent cough was a lingering flu symptom. Then, a chest x-ray revealed he was ...

Evaluation for heart transplant or LVAD implantation is not often done and palliative care is underutilized in older patients with advanced HF.

Son Vang kept getting pneumonia and doctors weren't sure why until they realized he had congestive heart failure. Now, after ...

At the largest hospital in Brooklyn, doctors are working to address disparities for patients facing advanced heart failure.

The heart transplant program at Richmond's Veterans Administration hospital remains suspended as leadership works on ...

As the prevalence of cardiovascular disease rises in the United States, Heart Hospital of Austin is providing advanced ...

In fact, one of the UAHT goals for the future is to include LVAD education in advanced cardiac life support or basic life support courses, just as automatic external defibrillator device education ...