Hear from Doctors & Patients
Stephanie Moore, MD, Heart Failure Cardiologist
"This is a pioneering therapy for heart failure to get you all the way from Class IV to being basically unstoppable."
Leslie Miller, MD, Heart Failure Cardiologist
"When advanced heart failure patients lose response to OMM, there frequently are no other options and that's where the field of MCS is designed to be the alternative."
Rick Soucier, MD, Cardiologist
"Now the options are if a patient gets this therapy, it's possible that they'll get the quality of life that they haven't had in the last 10 years."
Mark Slaughter, MD, Cardiac Surgeon
"Most of our patients, somewhere around 8 weeks, have returned to a New York Heart Association Class I and they can perform any of their daily activities without any symptoms."
Amy
"You don't know how much you really love to live life until you are facing the possibility that it might not be there."
Janna
"If I were talking to somebody who was trying to make the decision whether or not to get a heart pump I would definitely say to go ahead and do it."
Saved by the Beat of Her Heart
A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) designed to fit smaller frames helps Salina Gonzales avoid a heart transplant.