A 65-year-old woman with nonischemic cardiomyopathy on guideline-directed medical therapy presents with acute decompensated heart failure. While initially stable on standard therapy, she develops ...

Introduction: Axillary intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABPs) represent an emerging approach to support patients with advanced heart failure, particularly those awaiting heart transplantation. However, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—A novel percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) appears to offer comparable safety to an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) when offering hemodynamic stabilization in elective, ...

Background: Recent guidelines for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) complicated by cardiogenic shock (CS) support the use of impeller percutaneous endovascular devices (PED), in addition to ...

This news was covered by the Medical Dialogues Bureau, which was present at the TCT Conference 2025 held in San Francisco, USA. Use of the NyokAssist small-bore percutaneous ventricular assist device ...