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 ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Giving a bear hug to his surgeon and a thumbs-up to other hospital staff, a 14-year-old boy went home for Christmas – the first child to receive a new heart after relying on a ...

Each night, Al Senter unplugs his heart pump from a battery pack and connects it to a machine. Before the pump was approved for end-stage patients, his last resort was a heart transplant, but he was ...

Despite making up half of the 64 million people living with heart failure, patients with this common form have no access to ...

The Kate Gleason College of Engineering’s multidisciplinary senior design program provides a unique opportunity for students to gain hands-on expertise and participate in top-level research while ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A local woman says a breakthrough heart device helped save her life, when nothing else seemed to work. This new pump now has final FDA approval. "There is hope for you, even in ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved use of a heart pump on Wednesday that was largely designed and tested at the Texas Heart Institute. The HeartMate II device, a continuous-flow pump that ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Walter Harsche was diagnosed with congestive heart failure three years ago and was told he needed a heart transplant. "I was all set to go if the phone call came," Harsche said.

Thoratec Corp. of Pleasanton warned consumers late Tuesday that four patients, including two who improperly used the company's popular heart pump device, had died. The users had experienced problems ...