Up to 300 people are currently on the UK's transplant list and many are fitted with mechanical pumps as a "bridge" to getting a new heart. Called left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), they help ...
Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. In the Step Thru below, see the complicated path the blood takes as it moves in and out of the heart.
Physician-scientists found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which may open the door to new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.
Your heart is an exquisitely engineered pump made almost entirely of muscle ... This short film is from the BBC series, Inside the Human Body. The 3D footage brings the topic to life and would ...
A "pumping" patch containing millions of living, beating stem cells could help repair the damage caused by a heart attack, according to researchers. Sewn on to the heart, the 3cm (1in) by 2cm ...
“This is the strongest evidence we have, so far, that human heart muscle ... from a soccer injury. “The pump pushes blood into the aorta, bypassing the heart,” he said.