For 5 weeks, the tiny Impella kept Katrina Penney's failed heart pumping while a second heart transplant was secured.

A national clinical trial is underway to compare a novel mechanical heart pump to the only device currently used to treat end-stage heart failure. The INNOVATE study, led by University of Michigan, wi ...

There are many difficulties in converting any biological research into a medicine that will treat patients. Because of the complexity involved, these ...

a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also ...

The world's smallest heart pump helped save a Children's Hospital of Philadelphia patient's life. Now that it's been FDA-approved for younger children, doctors say it will help even more.

A US woman has become the first person in the world to undergo a pig kidney transplant and also have a mechanical heart pump surgically implanted. Lisa Pisano's combination of heart and kidney ...

HeartMate 3, the artificial heart pump developed by Abbott, was implanted in a 35-year-old man who had been hospitalised for nearly four months due to advanced heart failure, which led to kidney and ...

A new contender has now arrived in the BiVACOR TAH (total artificial heart), which just had the first prototype implanted in a human patient. Unlike the typical membrane-based pumps, the BiVACOR ...

The patient did not experience any side effects from the implant before undergoing the ... and the risks associated with artificial heart pumps highlight the urgent need for alternative treatments.