has shown a 1- and 2-year survival of 39 and 22%, respectively, in patients undergoing a LionHeart LVAD implantation. [12] This fully implantable device caused fewer infectious complications than ...

Figure 1: Kaplan–Meier survival distributions after transplantation for patients who received an LVAD before transplantation and those who did not. A notable finding by Shuhaiber and colleagues ...

After some time in the hospital, Meli was scheduled for a surgery to place a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), a device that will pump Meli's heart for her. "I'm sitting on this operating bed ...