Study investigators cautioned against routine use of the device in complex percutaneous coronary interventions and to treat ...

Congestive heart failure refers to the inability of the heart to perform its basic function, which is pumping blood throughout the body. It comes in various forms, causing swelling of the legs and ...

When heart muscle gets damaged, the result is often permanent. Unlike other muscles in the body, the heart has long been believed to lack the ability to heal itself. But recent research suggests that ...

When the heart struggles to pump efficiently, a cascade of events unfolds. Fluid accumulates in the lungs and extremities. Breathing becomes labored. Simple activities like climbing stairs or carrying ...

The heart is highly vital for keeping us alive because it moves blood around our bodies. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a long-term, worsening condition in which the heart can't pump blood well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It doesn't look like much, but Katrina Penney says she wouldn't be here today without a very small heart pump. Penney went into ...

The first randomized trial to test whether adding a small, temporary pump to allow the heart to rest and intentionally delaying percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), also known as coronary ...

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.

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 ...

A Florida father received a heart transplant after a staggering seven years — setting the local record for the longest wait.

A clinical study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden shows that the hunger hormone ghrelin can increase the heart's pump capacity in patients with ...