"This is a landmark event for children suffering from terminal heart failure." Charles D. Fraser, Jr., MD, Texas Children’s Hospital THE WOODLANDS, Tex., and BERLIN, Dec. 16, 2011—The Berlin Heart ...
Decatur, Ga.-based Emory Heart and Vascular Center completed its 500th left ventricular assist device implantation. This year alone, Emory surgeons have implanted approximately 60 LVADs and expect to ...
Patients with corrected transposition of the great arteries (l-TGA) and those following a Senning or Mustard procedure generally follow the same principles of cardiac support, with a few important ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA and Medtronic alerted health care providers to no longer implant patients with end-stage HF with a ...
What are Ventricular Assist Devices? Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are mechanical heart pumps. 1 They use electrical and mechanical technology to support cardiac functioning by helping blood to ...
Connex Biomedical Inc. applied for patent protection for a transcardiac access port affixed and retained post-procedure on the cardiac muscle, such as the ventricular myocardium, and an access port ...
People with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) often underwent non-cardiac surgery -- and faced higher-than-average morbidity and mortality in doing so, a study showed. One in six Medicare ...
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