A ventricular assist device (VAD) helps pump blood from your heart to the rest of your body. It’s used when your heart is not able to pump enough blood on its own. The device consists of a pump, tubes ...

The pumps are driven by either pneumatic or electrical drive systems. Examples of this type of devices are the Thoratec pneumatic VAD (pVAD) and implantable VAD (IVAD; Thoratec Laboratories Corp ...

VADs are also classified based on the location of a pump relative to the patient: intracorporeal, paracorporeal, and extracorporeal. In general, a pulsatile VAD is paracorporeal, and an axial VAD ...

The young patient is one of the world’s first to receive cardiac rehabilitation workouts while a device helps her heart pump.

Around six million Americans have received a diagnosis of heart failure. Heart transplants are considered a gold standard of treatment. But, it’s not always an option. “It is a limited resource, ...

A celebration was held Tuesday for patients with heart failure who are now living a normal life thanks to an implanted device ...

Doctors often treat these patients with a ventricular assist device, an implantable heart pump that assists the weak muscle of the heart’s left ventricle in pumping blood throughout the body.

Left ventricular assist devices, which are mechanical heart pumps, are an important treatment for patients with advanced ...