Tag: heart pumps

Learn the warning signs of advanced heart failure and when to seek specialized care, including treatment options like LVADs and heart transplant evaluation.

Pacemakers and defibrillators treat abnormal heart rhythms, but they work in different ways. University of Rochester Medicine cardiac electrophysiologist Casey White, MD, explains the differences so ...

Heroic individuals’ lifesaving generosity is in the spotlight as University of Rochester Medicine expanded the Gifts of Life Honor Wall at Strong Memorial Hospital. Last year nearly 250 people ...

UR Medicine Strong Memorial Hospital recently provided its 1,000th heart pump, a lifesaving therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. This milestone has been attained by only a handful of ...

Strong Memorial Hospital provided a record 40 life-saving heart transplants last year. Those second chances, made possible by organ donors, are priceless for our patients and their families.

Throughout Eastman Institute, faculty and residents treat patients with a wide range of complex medical issues, like Loren Vinal, who has an LVAD heart pump. He travels four hours round trip to ...

URMC ranks in the top 3 centers for advanced heart failure in the US, including implantable pumps.

Regular monitoring is needed to ensure LVAD devices are functioning appropriately. Kathy Bentley, along with many others in the southern region, are now utilizing the TeleVAD program to help get the ...

Buffalo Police Detective Jim Kaska and Police Capt. Melinda Jones exchanged vows in an intensive care unit at Strong Memorial Hospital, where Kaska is awaiting a new heart, and a second chance at ...

Pioneering efforts by UR Medicine cardiac surgery teams led to FDA approval of a new technique for implanting a life-saving heart pump. The procedure, performed first in the nation at Strong Memorial ...