USC Cardiothoracic Surgeons are on the leading edge of incorporating the latest medical devices into their practice.

Many of these innovative devices are designed to keep the heart functioning in a patient who has heart failure. Heart failure can occur for many reasons -- congenital heart disease, cardiomyopathy, virus, drugs or previous heart attacks. Some of these devices are used as a “bridge” to transplant, while others are used as a permanent replacement (a.k.a. Destination Therapy).

The devices we currently use include:

• HeartMate II LVAD
• HeartWare HVAD
• DuraHeart LVAD
• Centrimag RVAD/LVAD
• Syncardia Total Artificial Heart
• Tandem Heart
• Impella 2.0

For more information please visit www.mylvad.com, or contact us at (323) 442-5849.