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 ...

BrioHealth has received conditional FDA approval to conduct a clinical evaluation of its ventricular assist device in ...

Pediatric ventricular assist devices (VADs) and mechanical circulatory support systems have emerged as critical tools in the management of children with end‐stage heart failure, including those with ...

Patients with cardiogenic shock treated at hospitals with a higher volume of percutaneous microaxial VAD implantation in the US have lower mortality risk. Higher hospital procedure volume of ...

As Tucson toddler Tiana Lopez returned home last weekend after a spectacular recovery on an experimental heart device, the same device was pumping for another local baby with life-threatening heart ...

The characteristics described in this table are general. The intra-aortic balloon pump has been excluded since to it does not generate its own volume stroke. *Clinical approval of ECMO is variable ...