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Cardiac Assist Devices

1992
The ultimate objective of any program developing a ventricle pump is to join two artificial ventricles together to form a total artificial heart. However, an initial objective has been to develop an assist pump, or ventricular assist device, for weaning a patient whose heart will not spontaneously beat after open heart surgery, by artificially assuming
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Temporary assist device for postcardiotomy cardiac failure

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2004
Postcardiotomy left ventricular failure (LVF) complicating a cardiac surgical procedure is usually managed with intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) counterpulsation. We report two cases of postcardiotomy LVF unresponsive to inotropic support and IABP counterpulsation that were managed successfully with the use of the TandemHeart percutaneous ventricular ...
Antonis A, Pitsis, Petros, Dardas, Nikolaos, Mezilis, Nikolaos, Nikoloudakis, Gerasimos, Filippatos, Daniel, Burkhoff   +5 more
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Cardiac Recovery During Mechanical Assist Device Support

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2008
It is estimated that approximately 100,000 patients in the United States with advanced heart failure might benefit from cardiac transplantation, while donors are available for only 2000 recipients each year. Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are used both for bridge to transplantation and for long term support in patients ineligible for ...
Simon, Maybaum, Gayathri, Kamalakannan, Sandhya, Murthy   +2 more
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A new right ventricular cardiac assist device

Medical Hypotheses, 1979
At present no good method of assisting the right ventricle of the heart exists. This paper presents a new and effective approach to assisting the right ventricle of the heart which can be utilized independently or during cardiac surgery. Through implementation of this method, and timed inflation and deflation of several types of balloon catheters in ...
R T, Gordon, D, Gordon
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Cardiac Assist Devices as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplant

AACN Advanced Critical Care, 1991
The number of heart transplants being performed in the United States over the last decade has increased significantly. The supply of human donor hearts has not kept up with the demand. This situation has led to the development of means to support patient’s cardiac function until a human donor heart can be obtained.
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Biological Cardiac Assist Devices

2016
In this chapter, we present an overview of the field of biological pumps as they relate to heart failure. The concept of biological pumps is relatively new; therefore, we start with an overview of the field and describe the concept of biological pumps and the potential utilization of these devices to support infarcted hearts.
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Cardiac Assist Devices

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine, 1986
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Echocardiography and cardiac assist devices.

Minerva cardioangiologica, 2007
Mechanical circulatory support is, nowadays, a well established treatment modality for end stage heart failure. Patients candidate for cardiac transplantation who decompensate while awaiting graft can be supported by long-term left ventricular assist devices (long-term LVAD). These devices are intracorporeal pumps, expensive and complicated to install,
E, Catena, F, Milazzo
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Cardiac Assist Devices

2023
Karan Madan, Sourabh Pahuja, Sunandan Sikdar   +2 more
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Cardiac assist devices

2009
Laura K. Diaz, Anthony Chang
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