Just before a major heart surgery at Piedmont Augusta, Akira Joy Hendricks had one urgent request.
Mike Arnold called himself "Iron Man" last May. It was a joke, with some truth attached. He was in a hospital bed at CHI Health Nebraska Heart in Lincoln where a high-tech gadget called a left ...
Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...
Daniel Phan was in heart failure and days from undergoing lifesaving surgery when he and his girlfriend, Julia, decided to ...
Las Vegas, NV - The preliminary results from a large prospective study of cardiac function during left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support have found that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ...
Ventricular resection can significantly improve your life span if you have severe heart failure due to an enlarged left ventricle. If you have an enlarged heart (also known as cardiomegaly), it means ...
An FDA alert warned of problems with some Mobile Power Units of the HeartMate II and HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist devices. Medtronic's thin OmniaSecure defibrillation lead got FDA approval for ...
Two years ago, on a family skiing trip to Colorado, Toby Wise was struggling to keep up. Wise, 45, had always been in good health, played football in high school and played in a softball league and a ...