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For people with advanced heart failure who are being treated with medications, the survival rate can be less than 50-75% at one year, which is a worse prognosis than many cancers. However, there are options for improved survival and quality of life for many people with advanced heart failure. This includes left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy, which offers many people an opportunity to live and breathe again.
Instead, the LVAD works with the lower chamber of your heart to help pump blood to the rest of your body. Some people are on an LVAD temporarily, while others live permanently on the pump. In the U.S., an LVAD is currently approved by Medicare and most insurers for two indications:
Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) have offered hope and an improved quality of life to many people with advanced heart failure. If you have been advised to consider LVAD support, you and your loved ones will likely have many questions about how the device works, screening to determine if you’re eligible for an LVAD, the surgical process and important life changes you’ll need to make.
As you read through the information in these pages, please write down questions that we can address when we meet in clinic or in the hospital. We will sit down with you and your family and review this in detail prior to surgery.
You can also read our patient stories to see how others have lived on LVAD support. If you would like to meet an LVAD patient, we can often arrange this as well. We look forward to speaking with you and your family about LVAD.
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