The cardiology team at URMC announced their recent achievement of providing their 1000th Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical ... the majority of deaths were due to fatal intracerebral bleeding or nontraumatic subdural hematoma, most probably associated with excessive ...

Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med. 2006;3(7):346-347. Since the first widespread clinical application of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) for patients with end-stage heart failure in the ...

Warfarin is the standard treatment for left ventricular thrombus. However, patients taking warfarin must undergo frequent blood tests to check that the time it takes for their blood to clot ...

The development of left ventricular assist devices could be considered an 'imaginative leap'. In the current phase of critical evaluation of these devices, a study of patients who received first ...

“I just knew something was wrong.” Dr. Jerome Thomas and Micah Wesley sit down with KXAN to talk about LVAD. (Photo by Frank Martinez) Doctors told her the only option left was a Left ...

These conditions include patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and atrial fibrillation (AFib), and patients with mechanical heart ...

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 April 2025 – Institut Jantung Negara (IJN) has made medical history by successfully performing Malaysia's first Paediatric Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVALJ) implantation ...