Study investigators cautioned against routine use of the device in complex percutaneous coronary interventions and to treat ...

According to the World Health Organization, diseases of the circulatory system, including heart disease such as heart attacks, are still among the most common causes of death worldwide. Recovering the ...

Using a microaxial flow pump prior to and during cardiac stenting procedures for patients with severe heart attacks who don't have cardiogenic shock does not significantly reduce heart damage.

Researchers at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have discovered a key genetic regulatory mechanism that becomes disrupted in heart failure ...

There are new and revised warnings about the instructions for use of a certain type of heart pump that could lead to a risk of heart perforation, according to an alert issued by the pump's ...

A clinical study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden shows that the hunger hormone ghrelin can increase the heart's pump capacity in patients with ...

There are no treatments for aortic stenosis, a heart valve problem afflicting as many as a fifth of people over 65. The only solution is to modify the affected valve by implanting a prosthetic device ...

Clinical teams face continual challenges when treating pediatric acquired and congenital heart disease. In severe cases, pediatric heart disease can progress to premature heart failure (HF), posing an ...

SALT LAKE CITY- Surgeons at University of Utah Hospital have performed the hospital’s first implant of a new generation left ventricular assist device (LVAD) using the HeartWare HVAD. The tiny, ...