Byfield is one of over 100,000 people waiting for a life-saving organ transplant in the country.

Surgeons at Virtua Health, a five-hospital system based in Camden, N.J., successfully performed its first left ventricular assist device implantation, the system announced July 1. The procedure is a ...

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 ...

Ventricular resection can significantly improve your life span if you have severe heart failure due to an enlarged left ventricle. If you have an enlarged heart (also known as cardiomegaly), it means ...

After finding out his heart was failing at age 25, Army veteran Keith McCarter finally found the path to get healthy again.

In 2006, Steve Pitkin suffered a serious heart attack while hiking above Salt Lake City with his daughter. The main artery in Pitkin’s heart was completely blocked, leaving 70% of his left ventricle ...

Las Vegas, NV - The preliminary results from a large prospective study of cardiac function during left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support have found that left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF ...

Dick Cheney Made LVADs Virtually Famous Public interest in the devices spiked on Google, Twitter, and YouTube when the former vice-president's experiences with it were in the news. The lesson? Keep ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — It all started in 2023 when Mitchell Evenson was being treated for GI issues. After being sedated for a scope due to those issues, he went into total heart failure. Doctors ...