Ventricular Assist Devices (VAD)

This channel includes news and new technology innovations for ventricular assist devices (VAD). VADs are a type of mechanical hemodynamic support device that helps increase blood flow in people who have ventricles that are not work properly due to heart failure, cardiogenic shock, cardiomyopathy or myocardial infarction. Most often these devices support the left ventricle, so they are often referred to as left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). VADS come in two types, surgically implanted, usually as a bridge to heart transplant, and percutanenous catheter-based pumps used for temporary hemodynamic support. Examples of temporary percutaneous pumps include the Impella and TandemHeart devices.

 

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December 11, 2013 – The National Cheng Kung University Heart Science and Medical Devices Research Center (NCKU HSDMRC) ...

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December 6, 2013 — HeartWare International Inc. has acquired CircuLite Inc., a developer of the Synergy Circulatory ...
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October 23, 2013 — Sunshine Heart Inc. announced its collaboration with Minnetronix for a transcutaneous energy transfer ...
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September 19, 2013 — CardiacAssist launched the Protek17 Arterial Cannula, a key component of the TandemHeart temporary ...

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There is no shortage of debate among interventional cardiologists over whether vascular closure devices should be used ...

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August 20, 2013 — Cardiac surgeons and cardiologists at the University of Maryland Heart Center are part of a multi ...

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August 5, 2013 — Abiomed Inc. reported that physicians have implanted more than 15,000 Impella pumps in U.S. patients ...

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July 19, 2013 — The Mount Sinai Medical Center is the first medical center in New York City to offer the HeartMate II ...

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July 11, 2013 — Abiomed’s Impella percutaneous left ventricular assist device (pLVAD) was recently deployed at Baylor ...

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June 7, 2013 — Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a procedure traditionally used during cardiac surgeries and ...

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May 20, 2013 — CircuLite Inc. announced that it has received approval from the Federal Agency for Medicines and Health ...

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May 16, 2013 — Leviticus Cardio performed a successful animal surgical trial using its wireless coplanar energy transfer ...

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There is a growing trend in the use of small, portable extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems for ...

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Since the 1970s, intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABPs) have been the gold standard of minimally invasive hemodynamic ...

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