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

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 ...

New concepts in device therapy for advanced heart failure presented in early reports ...

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 ...

Female recipients of a left ventricular assist device tend to have worse clinical outcomes compared to their male counterparts, according to a study in Circulation: Heart Failure from researchers at ...

Cadrenal Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVKD), a biopharmaceutical company developing tecarfarin, has announced a collaborative effort with Abbott (NYSE:ABT) to advance this novel anticoagulant for ...

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

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ANAHEIM, Calif. — A decision-support intervention was associated with improved decision quality among candidates ...

Beware a maculopapular rash years after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, according to clinicians describing the phenomenon of LVAD vasculitis in a case series. Three cases of LVAD ...

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 ...

Since the first LVAD was placed in 1984, more than 6000 of the devices have been placed worldwide (O.H. Frazier, personal communication, January 2002). As LVAD therapy makes the transition from ...

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