An 11-year-old boy recently became the first person in the world to have an artificial heart valve replaced with a living ...

An 11-year-old Maryland boy is making medical history after becoming the first person in the world to have an artificial ...

The cardiac surgery team at Washington, D.C.-based Children’s National Hospital has become the first in the world to replace an artificial heart valve with a live tissue valve through a partial heart ...

This study evaluated the performance of an artificial intelligence–enabled electrocardiogram (AI-ECG) and an AI-powered digital stethoscope to see how well they could detect early signs of heart ...

These partial artificial hearts, known as ventricular assist devices, help out a biological heart by supplementing or ...

or LVAD, a mechanical pump implanted inside the chest that helps the heart circulate blood. MORE: Pregnant Texas mom beats Stage 3 breast cancer, shares story to support life-saving research ...

Pre- and postimplantation nursing evaluation, care, and teaching is crucial to successful, long-term LVAD recipient outcomes. Nurses provide care and cost-containment efforts that lead to patients ...

Pediatric heart failure remains a global medical ... annually due to a chronic shortage of donor hearts. Artificial hearts, or ventricular assist devices, can temporarily support cardiac function ...