While a vast majority of heart transplants in the United States are successful, unplanned hospitalizations after the procedures are still incredibly common.

The recall includes more than 1,600 devices distributed from October 2006 to June 2021. Medtronic's HVAD system has already been associated with multiple issues, including a separate recall in 2021. 

“We have finally been able to pinpoint one of the key reasons why the heart muscle wall thickens," one researcher said. 

Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, recently became just the fourth hospital in the United States to earn an Advanced Heart Failure Accreditation from the American College of Cardiology.

Simple EHR alerts helped one health system get more guideline-recommended medications to its heart failure patients.

When cocaine users are hospitalized for heart failure, what should physicians expect? Are beta-blockers an effective treatment strategy? 

The company will use the funds to follow up on what it learned from the REDUCE LAP-HF II clinical trial.