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When is the right time for a heart pump?
Keith Aaronson, M.D., Francis Pagani, M.D., Ph.D., and Todd Koelling, M.D., treat advanced heart failure patients. There are over 6 million people with heart failure in the United States. Other than...
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LVAD patient pays it forward
Furman Dillard wants to educate others about LVADs, using his own LVAD to give first-hand demonstrations. Furman Dillard of Ann Arbor is thankful to the U-M Frankel Cardiovascular team for giving him a...
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Living with an LVAD
U-M LVAD patient Scott Reid, along with son Landon and girlfriend Abbie, is “happy to be alive.” Scott Reid was healthy his entire life. A high school football player and swimmer, he was busy enjoying...
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Playing a new tune after heart failure and heart transplant (VIDEO)
Band teacher Scot Cannell, 50, and his cardiologists at the University of Michigan would come up with a solution at each low point in treating his heart disease: an implantable cardiac defibrillator...
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LVAD patient is living life in “drive”
Sharon Gillon might not be test-driving cars anymore, as she did during her career with Chrysler Corporation, but the 73-year-old is raring to go after having a left ventricular assist device (LVAD)...
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Hope for advanced heart failure patients
Tremendous advancements have been made since the first U.S. human heart transplant was performed in 1968. Today, promising new studies involving devices and procedures are giving hope to the 5.1...
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LVAD patient gives extra thanks this year
Cara Reischel is giving extra thanks this holiday season … for her husband, Joel, daughter, Cora, and her improved health due to a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) that was implanted in February...
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Real women, Real stories – Go Red for Women
Heart survivors Jolette Munoz and Sharon Gillon are living stronger. Heart disease has long been thought of as a men’s issue, when it is actually the leading cause of death in both men and women. In...
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The long road to heart transplant
Daniel Silverman has faced death more times that he’d like to think about. But through the years — 21 to be exact — and the many heart-related emergencies he’s experienced, he has never once asked:...
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