A decade’s worth of data point to some reduction in vascular complications among US patients receiving percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Still, by 2015, around one in nine ...

Patients who developed late right heart failure (RHF) after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery suffered more major adverse events and had worse survival, researchers found. At 1 month ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Meticulous positioning matters in reducing stroke risk after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) placement, according to a researcher here. Two parameters of multi-detector cardiac ...

For some patients, a percutaneous left ventricular assist device (LVAD) may increase the risk of subsequent aortic regurgitation (AR), especially when there’s a need for longer support, new data ...

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 ...

Ralph Schwanke received his LVAD in 2016 after suffering a heart attack and heart failure. He's now lived more than eight years with the technology that has likely extended his life. Ralph Schwanke ...

At the study hospital, pediatric palliative care (PPC) involvement for children with VADs has sharply increased in recent years, according to the new research by Christopher Knoll, MD, and colleagues ...