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Guest host Dr Margaret Redfield discusses the basics of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs)—as bridge to transplant, destination therapy, and bridge to recovery—with leading heart-failure surgeon ...
Analysis features the growing need to evolve anticoagulation therapy beyond warfarin to avoid gastrointestinal bleeding, a significant and common complication for left ventricular assist device (LVAD) ...
When it comes to receiving a new heart, some patients with advanced heart failure may be put at a disadvantage by recent policy changes from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ...
BOSTON, MA—It may be possible to use a direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) in advanced heart failure (HF) patients recently implanted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), according to results ...
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 ...
Through a new four-year, $2.8 million NIH grant, Dr. O. H. Frazier, and team in the Innovative Device Engineering & Applications (IDEA) Lab at The Texas Heart Institute will collaborate with ...