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Circulatory Assist Devices in Congestive Heart Failure

Cardiology Clinics, 1994
This article discusses the use of mechanical circulatory assist devices to support patients who have developed heart failure that has become refractory to more conventional treatment. Included is a description of the various devices available, the respective advantages and disadvantages of each, and a general discussion of the indications for ...
T V, Votapka, D G, Pennington
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Left ventricular assist devices in heart failure

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy, 2012
End-stage heart failure is an ever-growing and devastating disease. The median survival for patients with heart failure on ionotropic support alone is a meager 6 months. Historically, the only option for these patients was to be listed for heart transplantation.
Ahmet, Kilic, Gorav, Ailawadi
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Artificial Heart and Left Ventricular Assist Devices

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1985
We believe there will be a place in cardiac surgery for a variety of assist and replacement devices. The extracorporeal assist devices, with or without extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, will be needed for acute situations requiring time for diagnosis and prognosis to be determined.
J, Kolff, G M, Deeb
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Control issues in rotary heart assist devices

Proceedings of the 2000 American Control Conference. ACC (IEEE Cat. No.00CH36334), 2000
Heart assist devices are mechanical pumps used in patients with cardiovascular diseases who are awaiting heart transplantation. With increasing clinical success, these devices are being used for longer periods of time, and automatic control has become an important requirement.
J. Robert Boston, Marwan A. Simaan, James F. Antaki, Yih-Choung Yu   +3 more
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Implantation of a Berlin Heart Ventricular Assist Device

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual, 2011
Until recently the only mode of mechanical circulatory support available in North America for use as bridge to cardiac transplantation in small children was extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation. However, since 2005 the Berlin Heart pediatric ventricular assist device has been increasingly widely used for both biventricular and left ventricular support.
R D B, Jaquiss, Michiaki, Imamura
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Circulatory Assist Devices in Heart Failure Patients

Heart Failure Clinics, 2009
Optimal medical therapy may ameliorate acute cardiogenic shock and long-term congestive heart failure symptoms; however, in certain cases mechanical circulatory assistance may be helpful or even required. Different devices can be considered based on the anticipated duration of need and the acuity of the cardiovascular failure being treated.
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Ventricular-Assist Devices and Total Artificial Hearts

Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 2007
An estimated 5.2 million people in the United States suffer from end-stage congestive heart failure (CHF), and it is the primary cause of approximately 58,000 deaths each year.1 Cardiac transplantation is the only definitive treatment for end-stage CHF, but over the past 10 to 15 years, there has been a relatively fixed discrepancy between donor ...
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[Heart transplantation and assist devices].

Herz, 2005
Although drug therapy of patients with chronic heart failure has improved significantly over the years, mortality still remains high. At present, heart transplantation is the gold standard therapy for patients with end stage heart disease. Due to the limited number of organs, a growing number of patients require the implantation of mechanical assist ...
Heidi, Görler, Axel, Haverich
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Rotary Heart Assist Devices

2009
The left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical device implanted in patients with congestive heart failure to assist the heart in pumping blood through the circulatory system. The latest generation of this device is comprised of a rotary pump which is generally much smaller, lighter, and quieter than the first-generation conventional ...
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The Pathology of Artificial Hearts and Ventricular Assist Devices

1994
Recent years have seen a huge increase in the number and scope of therapeutic procedures involving mechanical devices and the heart. Diseases of the heart which can now be treated using devices fall into four categories: valvular disease, abnormalities of cardiac innervation, congenital malformations and myocardial disease.
A, Coumbe, T R, Graham
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