It's implanted into the body's largest blood vessel (aorta), and inflates and deflates with each heartbeat. Cardiologists (heart specialists) and heart surgeons use this ...

ECMO machines are pumps that can temporarily provide heart and lung function during cardiac arrest and when time is of the ...

Gisel had postpartum cardiomyopathy, a rare condition that happens after birth in a small percentage of pregnancies. This ...

A recent observational analysis compared the choice of surgical techniques like off-pump (OPCABG) and on-pump (ONCABG) ...

The device, developed at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, managed to pump oxygenated ... but last summer it performed a heart and lung transplant using the new machine. The team at Royal ...

The heart pumps blood to the heart through the pulmonary artery ... we decide whether the surgery can be done with or without cardiopulmonary support using the heart-lung machine. If we do need the ...

The heart is a four-chambered pump made from specialized muscle tissue ... Early experience with the Dodrill-GMR and follow-on heart-lung machines gave doctors valuable feedback on what works ...

During his final year in medical school, he created the roller pump. Two decades later, it became a crucial component of the heart-lung machine that paved the way for open-heart surgery. Content ...

(Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) During your cardiac ablation, the surgical team pumps saline fluid ... They'll attach a heart-lung bypass machine to keep your blood flowing.

About 2 million people undergo open heart surgery yearly for different heart conditions, including coronary artery disease, ...

Supervised pulmonary rehabilitation exercises help severe PAH lung transplant candidates maintain or improve exercise ...