Hundreds of HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device (LVAD) systems are being recalled due to reports of blood leakage or air entering the seal interface between the device inflow cannula and the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Abbott’s recall of its LVAD communication system as class I, the most serious type. Status of ...

It's been almost a year since St. Jude Medical announced its acquisition of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) maker Thoratec, and the past 12 months have shaken up the LVAD market. Since then, St.

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps that take over the function of the damaged ventricle in order to re-establish normal hemodynamics and end-organ blood flow. In addition, VADs unload the ...

Patients with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) may benefit from having their pulmonary artery (PA) pressures monitored with the CardioMEMS system (Abbott), a nonrandomized study suggests. In ...

Pump thrombosis has been such a well-established shortcoming of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), that one heart surgeon went so far as to borrow Winston Churchill's phraseology to describe it ...

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 ...

Daxor Corporation has announced its participation in the MedAxiom CV Transforum Spring'25 Conference, taking place in Orlando, FL from April 24-26, 2025. At the event, Dr. Brian Howard from Wellstar ...

Five years after Medtronic's billion-dollar purchase of HeartWare International, the company discontinued the device at the center of acquisition — a miniaturized, implantable heart pump — with no ...