NEW YORK -- Harold E. Doley, Jr. had just weeks to live by the time he decided to get a life-saving procedure at NewYork- Presbyterian. He is fifty-year member of the New York Stock Exchange who ...

Surgeons at Virtua Health, a five-hospital system based in Camden, N.J., successfully performed its first left ventricular assist device implantation, the system announced July 1. The procedure is a ...

The advanced heart failure team at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden has successfully performed the health system’s first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. LVADs are ...

Patients who developed late right heart failure (RHF) after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery suffered more major adverse events and had worse survival, researchers found. At 1 month ...

Over those two years of check-ups and ultrasounds, doctors found that his heart was actually recovering and getting stronger due to the LVAD.

In the latest step toward making left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) easier and more accessible, the FDA recently approved a less invasive surgical approach for use with Abbott Laboratories’ ...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) made history with the successful implantation of the country’s first Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) within the ...

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 ...

People with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) often underwent non-cardiac surgery -- and faced higher-than-average morbidity and mortality in doing so, a study showed. One in six Medicare ...

It was hard for Layman Roseby to say goodbye to the people who gave him a second chance at life. Roseby, 52, said he was feeling "wonderful" Friday as he was about to be released from the University ...

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart does not function as well as it should and struggles to pump oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body. The American Heart Association defines ...