Connie Bowling, a 75-year-old deaf patient from Forsyth County, received a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in March ...

In the rarest of rare cases and a groundbreaking medical achievement, Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Kolkata achieved a ...

The first biohybrid model of human ventricles has been used to answer a centuries-old question. Unlike other organs, the heart cannot repair itself after injury, so being able to engineer an entire ...

Ventricular assist devices are mechanical pumps ... This classifies VADs in levels or generations ( Table 2). The first generation of devices includes pulsatile volume displacement pumps (Figure ...

In hypertension, increased pressure in the arteries can eventually cause the heart’s left ventricle to thicken (left ventricular hypertrophy) and the left atrium to enlarge in response.

A ventricular septal defect (VSD) occurs when there is direct communication between the left and right ventricles. This can be a congenital anomaly or acquired as a complication of a myocardial ...

Ventricular tachycardia refers to a wide QRS complex heart rhythm — that is, a QRS duration beyond 120 milliseconds — originating in the ventricles at a rate of greater than 100 beats per ...