INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) -- An Indianapolis doctor was the first to use a Berlin heart in the state and he's credited with helping pave the way for the small life-saving machine's use across the ...

While he waits, Edward's Berlin Heart has to stay plugged in, so he lives at the hospital while waiting for his transplant. It can only be unplugged for around 30 minutes at a time.

The Berlin Heart is an artificial heart, child-sized. It's this little pump that helped keep Lindsey Bingham, one of those featured in Dateline NBC's Sunday report "Where the Heart Is"," alive for ...

Seven-year-old Carlos Ochoa was a little boy with a big medical problem. In May his failing heart had started to give out, and he had to be resuscitated -- twice. Doctors gave him just days to ...

“It’s a ventricular assist device that’s called a berlin heart,” Aylor said. “It works as an external pumping mechanism to serve as his heart to help perfuse the rest of his organs and his body.” He ...

Bell was gifted with a "Berlin Heart" -- a mechanical ventricular device to help her enlarged heart until she gets a donor organ. Bell was born by emergency C-section on Sept. 2, 2021, 15 days late.

Mini marvel Beatrix Adamson-Archbold spent almost 15 months in hospital waiting for a donor - now her dad is calling for ...

The Berlin Heart, the size of a small orange, is also known as a ventricular assist device, or VAD. Produced in Germany, the computerized pump system is available in various sizes suitable for use ...

Berlin Heart is based in The Woodlands, and luckily, Richard Owens, Dell Children's lead perfusionist and director of mechanical circulatory support, had worked there previously.

A Berlin heart is a device which can be used in people whose hearts are not strong enough to pump enough blood around their bodies. It is used to allow time for a donor heart to be found.

INDIANAPOLIS (WRTV) — An Indianapolis doctor was the first to use a Berlin heart in the state and he’s credited with helping pave the way for the small life-saving machine’s use across the ...