Large-bore devices and longer time on support each up the risk. A study author calls for awareness, not alarm.

PHILADELPHIA -- Dropping aspirin from the antithrombotic regimen after HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation appeared safer than the usual combination approach in the ...

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 ...

Elderly patients enjoy improvements in quality of life and functional outcomes similar to those experienced by younger patients after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation, but with fewer ...

After bypass surgery and two heart attacks, the 62-year-old's heart was failing. Desperate, he grasped at his last hope: a surgically implanted heart pump. But following infections, kidney failure and ...

Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), particularly the latest iterations, can greatly increase functional capacity and quality of life for patients with heart failure, more than a decade’s worth of ...

Heart failure is a major public health problem. For terminal heart failure the treatment of choice used to be heart transplantation during the last three decades. But this is changing, largely due to ...

Patients with refractory VT may be too medically fragile to safely undergo a repeat catheter ablation. Is stereotactic ...