This device, known as a left ventricular assist device, helps the heart pump blood. According to Hesham Sadek, "This is the ...

The ability of the human heart to renew itself by regenerating its muscle cells, myocytes, is very limited. But what happens to this capability when the heart is damaged by severe heart failure ...

and they wanted a human cardiologist to come and work alongside the veterinarians. Occasionally I’d get a call to go to the zoo for a chimpanzee with heart failure or a gorilla who they were ...