December 6, 2010 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given conditional approval for a trial that ...
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.
November 17, 2010 – Data from the ADVANCE bridge-to-heart-transplant study showed that 92 percent of patients ...
November 17, 2010
November 15, 2010 - An experimental pump implanted in patients waiting for a heart transplant works as well as ...
November 15, 2010
October 18, 2010 - A 54-year-old Italian man has become the first patient to surpass 1,000 days of support with an ...
October 18, 2010
October 18, 2010 – Toronto General Hospital is the first Canadian medical center to implant a left-ventricular ...
October 18, 2010
Feature | Dave Fornell
October 1, 2010 – The most recent clinical data from USpella, a U.S. multicenter, observational registry of ...
October 01, 2010September 30, 2010 – A specialized partner program was recently launched to enable select top healthcare ...
September 30, 2010
September 21, 2010 – Ventricular assist devices (VADs) can restore normal hemodynamics and support recovery of ...
September 21, 2010September 20, 2010 – Transcatheter ventricular assist device (VAD) company Abiomed will highlight its devices at ...
September 20, 2010
September 10, 2010 – The first patient was successfully supported for six days by the Impella Right Peripheral ...
September 10, 2010
September 2, 2010 – Artificial heart maker SynCardia Systems said it plans to put the company up for sale some ...
September 02, 2010
August 13, 2010 – A rotary blood pump designed for long-term patient support had another patient surpass four ...
August 13, 2010
August 11, 2010 – The Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital recently implanted a ...
August 11, 2010August 3, 2010 — Patients have the right to refuse or request the withdrawal of any unwanted medical treatment ...
August 03, 2010
Feature | Keyur B. Shah, M.D.; Daniel P. Tang, M.D.; Michael Hess, M.D; and Vigneshwar Kasirajan, M.D. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va., Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
The practicality and expense of maintaining patients on total artificial hearts (TAH) may be significantly ...
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