Heart and Vascular Institute

Artificial Heart and Ventricular Assist Device Resources

Your care team at UPMC's Artificial Heart Program is always available to answer your questions and explain your course of treatment.

We understand that you may wish to learn more on your own, so we've assembled the following list of resources for you:

• American Heart Association
• Biomedical Engineering Society
• Cardiology Patient Education Sheets from UPMC
• Intermacs: national registry for people receiving mechanically assisted circulatory support
• McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Artificial Heart Program
• National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
• Transplantation at UPMC
• Vital Engineering

Video Resources

• View a video about Family House, a local charity that benefits patients and their families while they await heart treatment, featuring Dr. Robert Kormos, director of the UPMC Artificial Heart Program, and UPMC patients.
• Heart Failure EMMI patient education video