But an implantable heart pump could allow them to wait at home. Regulators in the US and Europe have approved one device, the Berlin Heart, for long-term use in younger children awaiting a heart ...

Ava's Berlin Heart device "helps her heart pump blood throughout her body," according to Cleveland Clinic Children's. Dad brings the dance to his daughter awaiting a heart transplant in a ...

The parents of a 16-month-old girl who is being kept alive thanks to a mechanical heart pump have said they face ... was fitted with a device known as a Berlin Heart, but she could not return ...

VADs are usually classified according to the mode of blood flow, namely pulsatile or continuous. Continuous types can be further subdivided based on the biomechanics of the pump: centrifugal or axial.