The VAD helps the failing heart to pump blood and decreases the load or stress on the heart muscle. This seems to result in changes in the heart tissues and sometimes even some recovery of the failing heart muscle. The associat ...

Your participation will help determine if a seismocardiography (SCG) is a reliable tool for predicting readmission to the hospital for heart failure (HF) related issues. The SCG (experimental device) will also be compared to an ...

Heart failure (HF) can cause other organs to shut down. This process appears to involve the white blood cells of the immune system. Our data show that abnormal gene activation or suppression of white blood cells may be indicati ...