A man in Australia spent more than 100 days with a titanium heart pumping blood around his body while he waited for a human ...

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 and ...

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 ...

One of the most common signs of heart valve disease is shortness of breath. Some people notice this when they are walking, ...

Severe pediatric cardiac decompensation has a mortality risk of 50-65% and is the leading cause of death in children. Heart transplantation is the current standard of care for end-stage pediatric ...

New concepts in device therapy for advanced heart failure presented in early reports ...