True ventricular assist devices (VADs) qualify for long-term application and allow patients full mobilization. These features are important in patients awaiting heart transplantation as well as in ...

Learn how artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle in some patients, offering new hope for heart failure treatment ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new ...

Skeletal muscle has a profound ability to regenerate after injury. If you are playing soccer and you tear a muscle, you need ...

A Pittsburgh man who received a heart transplant last year delivered gifts to special patients at Allegheny General Hospital.

A groundbreaking study has revealed that heart muscle can regenerate in certain patients with artificial hearts, offering new ...

Heart muscle can regenerate after failure in some people with artificial hearts, an international research team has found.

The influence of preoperative use of ventricular assist devices on survival after heart transplantation: propensity score matched analysis. BMJ 340 , c392 (2010).

A research team co-led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine—Tucson's Sarver Heart Center ...

Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.

Heart failure remains an incurable condition. While medications can slow its progression, the only options for advanced cases are heart transplants or mechanical support through left ventricular assis ...

Physicians at Emory University Hospital performed the first-ever surgical implantation in the United States of a brand-new type of heart pump designed to help save patients with heart failure, using a ...