New concepts in device therapy for advanced heart failure presented in early reports ...

BEAR, Delaware (WPVI) -- When medication stops helping with heart failure, a ventricular assist device might be the next option. VAD implants have doubled in the past decade, but are still underused.

"In short, it seems likely that the returned arterialized blood should be returned during diastole when the aortic valve is closed. This would probably offer less resistance to the ailing heart's ...

Compared with standard medical care, early use of a temporary intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) to support heart function in patients who were critically ill with cardiogenic shock caused by heart ...

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Abiomed (NASDAQ: ABMD) announces the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's investigational device exemption application to start ...

CHICAGO, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Abiomed Inc , maker of the AbioCor artificial heart, has high hopes for a device that can help an acutely ill patient's own heart pump blood until function can be restored, ...

IABP systems are typically inserted within the multidisciplinary environment that is the cardiac catheterization laboratory. The specific role of the physiologist during IABP insertion is to ensure ...