Impella ECP is the world’s smallest heart pump. It achieves peak flows greater than 3.5 L/min and is delivered through a slender-profile sheath.

After severe heart failure, the ability of the heart to heal by forming new cells is very low. However, after receiving treatment with a supportive heart pump, the capacity of a damaged heart to ...

This means that other than a heart transplant, the only available treatment for advanced heart failure is pump replacement using an artificial heart.

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill New Jersey woman received a pig kidney transplant and a surgically implanted mechanical heart pump.

In 2024, an Australian man became the first patient in the world to be discharged from the hospital with a fully implanted ...

Standing desks and movement breaks are helpful. But posture, joint mobility, and muscle function must also be prioritised.

But to their knowledge, this is the first study that has tested gene therapy on a heart disease model in non-human primates. The team also believes that this approach may be particularly effective for ...

The heart is the body's hardest-working muscle. Whether you're awake or asleep, or exercising or resting, your heart is always at work. It pumps blood through arteries to deliver oxygen to organs ...

In the first procedure of its kind, a 54-year-old New Jersey woman received a genetically engineered pig kidney and thymus after getting a heart pump.