UCSF surgeons have pulled off a milestone that sounds like science fiction but is now solid Bay Area reality. In the medical ...

"I was scared to death because I didn't have a heart for months." A man surviving without a real heart got a lucky break -- UCSF completed its first successful artificial heart to donor heart ...

Picard Medical (NYSE:PMI), parent company of SynCardia, today announced positive four-year outcomes with its Total Artificial Heart (TAH).

The patient was implanted with the SynCardia Total Artificial Heart on September 2, 2021, after developing severe biventricular heart failure. The device replaced the pumping function of both sides of ...

Workers at a Kansas hospital failed to properly sterilize and disinfect open-heart surgery devices, leading to slow-growing M ...

San Francisco-based UCSF Health performed its first heart transplant for a patient who previously received a total artificial heart. The 37-year-old patient was admitted in August with end-stage heart ...

Milestone procedure gives young father with advanced heart failure a new heart and new future with his family.

Odie Lawhun's journey began when his primary care provider, nurse practitioner Brandon Grant, recommended a calcium scoring ...

Left ventricular assist devices, also known as partial artificial hearts, or LVADs, have emerged as a standard treatment for pumping blood from the left ventricle to the aorta and therefore helping ...

A prayer gathering was held Wednesday at Dell Children's Hospital for Andres Vega, the LBJ football trainer who had heart ...

A five-year-old girl who became the world's first recipient of a dual-chamber artificial heart with fully magnetically levitated pumps has been discharged from a hospital in China after making a full ...

Amy Beethe walked into a pre-operation room in January 2022 and was struck when she saw her patient: a small, underweight child in a hospital bed, covers pulled up to his chin. The 4-year-old was ...