Surgeons at Virtua Health, a five-hospital system based in Camden, N.J., successfully performed its first left ventricular assist device implantation, the system announced July 1. The procedure is a ...

Doctors told Chevon Byfield that he only had a few months to live. His heart would give out by Thanksgiving. But 10 years later, Byfield is still alive, waiting for an organ donor. His failing heart ...

Implanting a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) involves putting a mechanical pump into the chest near the heart to help, or take over, the pumping of blood throughout the body. It is often used ...

The findings suggest clinicians don’t need to be as aggressive in lowering BP in this population, at least early after ...

The advanced heart failure team at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden has successfully performed the health system’s first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. LVADs are ...

Ventricular resection can significantly improve your life span if you have severe heart failure due to an enlarged left ventricle. If you have an enlarged heart (also known as cardiomegaly), it means ...

Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...

Las Vegas, NV - The preliminary results from a large prospective study of cardiac function during left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support have found that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ...

Outcomes and expenses were similar with transplant and elective LVAD, but urgent LVAD after ECMO fared much worse.

Chevon Byfield, 39, who suffers from heart failure and relies on a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), is kissed by his grandmother, Brylon Brown, before heading to a procedure at Memorial Regional ...