Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) - Dr. Evelyn Horn

Dr. Evelyn Horn, Director of Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension at the Perkin Heart Failure Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, discusses Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD).

LVAD's are implantable devices that help the heart to pump in patients with end-stage heart failure. They are sometimes used as a "bridge" while patients wait for a heart transplant or recover from cardiac incidents. More recently, LVAD's are also being used as a permanent method to help hearts function.

This video with Dr. Horn is from a web cast at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian.

You can learn more about Dr. Horn at:

http://www.weillcornell.org/emhorn

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