WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — More than a year ago, Novant Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute announced it was offering a new procedure that would help patients with advanced heart failure. Back in ...

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 ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Innovation in left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) has reached the point that routine left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion has little to offer anymore in the way of ...

Once the surgery has been completed successfully, usually on the left side of the heart (hence why the device is frequently referred to as an LVAD), the first six weeks require that the patient have a ...

Singapore, 27 March 2025 – The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) has successfully introduced a percutaneous procedure (with a balloon and stent) that transforms how complications in mechanical ...