Doctors told Chevon Byfield that he only had a few months to live. His heart would give out by Thanksgiving. But 10 years ...

MIAMI - Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute is celebrating its 75th LVAD heart implant. It's a device that keeps the heart going when the heart doesn't function on its own. Ted Spinelli thought he ...

At age 19, MacKenzie Maddry is both a cancer survivor and a heart transplant recipient.

(HealthDay News) — Battery-operated left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) may restore cardiac function for some heart failure patients, according to a study published in the Journal of the American ...

When it comes to receiving a new heart, some patients with advanced heart failure may be put at a disadvantage by recent policy changes from the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ...

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 ...

Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia is an abnormally fast heart rate that occurs in the lower chambers of the heart and lasts for less than 30 seconds. Tachycardia is a heart rate that is faster ...

In 2022, a multidisciplinary team in the Cardiac Center at CHOP implemented a specialized ventricular recovery program to encourage and identify patients who could benefit from heart recovery with ...

Monomorphic ventricular tachycardia is an irregular heartbeat where the bottom chambers of your heart beat quicker than usual. It can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath, dizziness, or fatigue.

A ventricular resection is a type of surgery that removes scar tissue or a tumor from a heart chamber to restore function. Often, a reconstruction or repair procedure follows this. The heart has four ...