Since the introduction of durable left ventricular assist devices for advanced heart failure, management of antithrombotic ...

For decades, left ventricular-assist devices (LVADs) have extended the lives of people whose hearts have grown too weak to effectively pump blood to the body. For upward of 20% of those patients, ...

Patients with cardiogenic shock treated at hospitals with a higher volume of percutaneous microaxial VAD implantation in the US have lower mortality risk. Higher hospital procedure volume of ...

This coordinated effort will standardize emergency care practices for VAD patients across all UAB sites of care, including UAB Hospital, UAB St. Vincent’s East, UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham, UAB 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 ...