San Diego, CA - Nearly 50% of patients receiving a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) experience a hospital readmission within six months of implantation, and most first-time readmissions are for ...

According to NPR, doctors at the Texas Heart Institute have created a device which uses ventricular assist devices (VADs) to move blood throughout the body using whirling rotors. The catch? Patients ...

Pulsatile perfusion is increasingly being used to preserve kidneys harvested from non-standard-criteria donors. Indeed, retrospective analyses have shown that machine preservation is associated with ...

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Receive the the ...