Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a progressive and debilitating disease that affects millions of adults and children worldwide. Hundreds of thousands of new cases of CHF are diagnosed each year in ...

Pediatric heart failure is a life-threatening condition that affects thousands of children annually and is commonly associated with congenital heart defects, cardiomyopathies, and other severe cardiac ...

In an early analysis of this trial, use of a magnetically levitated centrifugal continuous-flow circulatory pump was found to improve clinical outcomes, as compared with a mechanical-bearing axial ...

For all their success at extending the lives of a fewheart-failure patients, artificial hearts still suffer from a couple of designflaws that have limited their use. These electromechanical hearts ...

Continuous-flow left ventricular assist systems increase the rate of survival among patients with advanced heart failure but are associated with the development of pump thrombosis. We investigated the ...