Education for nurses, patients, family caregivers, and other community support personnel enables the UAHT LVAD program to be successful, whether the devices are placed as a bridge to transplant or ...

With an LVAD heart device, it's a classically complex medical decision: Statistically, you’re likely to do better, but there’s a serious chance you’ll be made seriously worse.

In 2006, Steve Pitkin suffered a serious heart attack while hiking above Salt Lake City with his daughter. The main artery in Pitkin’s heart was completely blocked, leaving 70% of his left ventricle ...

These patients get what’s called an LVAD — a left ventricular assist device — which helps pump their blood, and it can truly be a lifesaver.

End-stage heart failure patients who receive a surgically implanted left ventricular assist device heart pump may also benefit from a single dose of millions of powerful cells injected directly ...

An LVAD is a surgically implanted pump that takes over the function of a heart weakened by congestive heart failure (CHF). LVADs have historically been used to “bridge” patients to heart ...

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 ...

When heart failure patients receive a heart pumping device known as a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), their caregivers seem to suffer, too - at least initially, according to research in ...

In 2011, The Christ Hospital Heart & Vascular Institute (TCHHVI) launched a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, program to offer advanced care and support for heart failure patients.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – A unique treatment is giving new life to heart patients who had few options. Bill Besore says he has more energy than he’s had in years, thanks to a special heart procedure ...

LVAD therapy is not a panacea and will not be the treatment of choice for all patients in end-stage heart failure.