Medical X-Press – Beata Mostafavi
Children who experience severe heart failure, including those waiting for a heart transplant, often need a mechanical heart pump to help their bodies circulate blood.
While this surgically implanted ventricular assist device, or VAD, is necessary, it comes with the risk of causing a blood clot that can lead to a stroke—an outcome once experienced by up to one in three children who use a heart pump.
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