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Pressure, Flow Rate and Operating Speed Characteristics of a Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device During Varying Speed Support [PDF]

IEEE Access, 2020
Hydraulic performance of Continuous Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices depends on their pressure head and flow rate relations. Hydraulic characteristics of these devices are expressed by pressure head and flow rate loops in a pulsatile environment as ...
Selim Bozkurt
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A fully magnetically levitated left ventricular assist device — final report [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2019
Background In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal‐flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to have pump thrombosis or nondisabling stroke ...
Ewald, G.A., Itoh, A.
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Echocardiography in left ventricular assist device

Heart Views, 2010
LVAD = Left Ventricular Assist Device; LV = Left Ventricle; LA = Left Atrium; AO = Aorta.
Sherif M Helmy, Alia Albinali, Rachel Hajar   +2 more
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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy [PDF]

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2008
The left ventricular assist device was originally designed to be surgically implanted as a bridge to transplantation for patients with chronic end-stage heart failure.
Rady Mohamed Y, Verheijde Joseph L, Rizzieri Aaron G, McGregor Joan L   +3 more
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Long-Term Use of a Left Ventricular Assist Device for End-Stage Heart Failure [PDF]

New England Journal of Medicine, 2001
BACKGROUND Implantable left ventricular assist devices have benefited patients with end-stage heart failure as a bridge to cardiac transplantation, but their long-term use for the purpose of enhancing survival and the quality of life has not been ...
Eric A. Rose, Annetine C. Gelijns, Alan J. Moskowitz, Daniel F. Heitjan, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Walter P. Dembitsky, James W. Long, Deborah D. Ascheim, Anita R. Tierney, Ronald G. Levitan, John T. Watson, Nuala S. Ronan, Peter A. Shapiro, Ronald M. Lazar, Leslie W. Miller, Lopa Gupta, O.H. Frazier, Patrice Desvigne‐Nickens, Mehmet C. Öz, Victor L. Poirier, Paul Meier   +20 more
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Clinical outcome in patients with end-stage heart failure who underwent continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices in a single center [PDF]

The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine, 2022
Background/Aims The continuous flow left ventricular assist device (cf-LVAD) has improved the survival of chronic end-stage heart failure (HF) patients.
Yoonjee Park, Darae Kim, Jeong Hoon Yang, Yang Hyun Cho, Jin-Oh Choi, Eun-Seok Jeon   +5 more
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Case report of increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure with pulsatile left ventricular assist device [PDF]

Eur Heart J Case Rep
Background Left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are increasingly utilized in cardiogenic shock and high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs).
Marchi, Mauricio Felippi de Sa, Nuis, Rutger-Jan, Van Mieghem, Nicolas M., Verhemel, Sarah   +3 more
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Primary results of long‐term outcomes in the MOMENTUM 3 pivotal trial and continued access protocol study phase: a study of 2200 HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device implants

European Journal of Heart Failure, 2021
The MOMENTUM 3 pivotal trial established superiority of the HeartMate 3 (HM3) left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal‐flow pump, over the HeartMate II axial‐flow pump.
M. Mehra, J. Cleveland, N. Uriel, J. Cowger, S. Hall, D. Horstmanshof, Y. Naka, C. Salerno, J. Chuang, Christopher Williams, D. Goldstein   +10 more
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]

Journal of Education and Teaching in Emergency Medicine, 2017
Audience: The audience for this classic team-based learning (cTBL) session is emergency medicine residents, faculty, and students; although this topic is applicable to internal medicine and family medicine residents. Introduction: A left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is a mechanical circulatory support device that can be placed in critically-ill ...
Narajeenron, Khuansiri, Hoonpongsimanot, Wirachin Ying, Boysen Osborn, Megan   +2 more
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Racial and Sex Inequities in the Use of and Outcomes After Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation Among Medicare Beneficiaries

JAMA Network Open, 2022
This cohort study assesses inequities in access and outcomes in the receipt of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy for Black and female patients in the US.
T. Cascino, S. Somanchi, Monica M Colvin, Grace S Chung, A. Brescia, M. Pienta, M. Thompson, James W. Stewart, Devraj Sukul, Daphne C. Watkins, F. Pagani, D. Likosky, K. Aaronson, J. McCullough   +13 more
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