More than six million Americans have heart failure, meaning the heart can’t pump enough blood to support the rest of the organs in the body. For years, doctors have used LVADs – left ventricular ...

Abiomed has received FDA approval for a new model of its minimally invasive cardiac pump targeting the right side of the heart, allowing for a new approach the company says will make it easier for ...

The exploration started in 2004 with a 62-year-old man who presented to an emergency department with acute shortness of breath, tachycardia with chest discomfort, and light-headedness, Amado Alejandro ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) and heart failure are the same thing. Both terms describe the inability of the heart to pump ...

While heart failure can start in several ways, the key feature is that the heart stops doing an effective job of filling with blood and pumping it out to the rest of the body. This complex clinical ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this 12-part journey through a disease state ...

HACKENSACK, N.J. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - More than six million Americans have heart failure, meaning the heart can’t pump enough blood to support the rest of the organs in the body. For years, doctors ...