WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — More than a year ago, Novant Health’s Heart and Vascular Institute announced it was offering a new procedure that would help patients with advanced heart failure. Back in ...

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Innovation in left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) has reached the point that routine left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion has little to offer anymore in the way of ...

The advanced heart failure team at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden has successfully performed the health system’s first left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation. LVADs are ...

In 2006, Steve Pitkin suffered a serious heart attack while hiking above Salt Lake City with his daughter. The main artery in Pitkin’s heart was completely blocked, leaving 70% of his left ventricle ...

Just before a major heart surgery at Piedmont Augusta, Akira Joy Hendricks had one urgent request.