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Surface coatings for ventricular assist devices [PDF]

, 2009
This review focuses on the surface engineering of ventricular assist devices (VADs) for treating heart failing patients, which involves modification of the blood contacting surfaces to improve the blood compatibility (or heamocompatability) of the VADs ...
Kei, Ho-Lun, Sin, Dong-Choon, Miao, Xigeng   +2 more
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Paediatric ventricular assist devices: current achievements

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2013
In chronic cardiomyopathy, mechanical circulatory support plays an increasingly important role for children as the shortage of suitable donor hearts increases times on the transplant waiting list.
Martin Schweiger, Hitendu Dave, Olga Romanchenko, Frithjof Lemme, Michael Hübler   +4 more
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Ventricular Assist Devices: Challenges of the One-device Era

Cardiac Failure Review, 2022
Heart failure (HF) is linked to to high mortality rates and recurrent hospitalisations despite medical and device-based achievements. The use of left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) has improved survival among patients with advanced HF.
Gassan Moady, Shaul Atar, Binyamin Ben-Avraham, Tuvia Ben-Gal   +3 more
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Estimation of Left Ventricular Stroke Work for Rotary Left Ventricular Assist Devices

, 2023
Continuous monitoring of left ventricular stroke work (LVSW) may improve the medical management of patients with rotary left ventricular assist devices (LVAD).
Moscato, Francesco, Gregory, Shaun D, Wu, Eric L, Eric L. Wu, John F. Fraser, Maw, Martin, Geoffrey Tansley, Andrew F. Stephens, Francesco Moscato, Shaun D. Gregory, Martin Maw, Michael C. Stevens, Tansley, Geoffrey, Stevens, Michael C, Stephens, Andrew F, Fraser, John F   +15 more
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Intravenous thrombolytic therapy for patients with ventricular assist device thrombosis: An attempt to avoid reoperation

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2016
A growing number of patients are undergoing prolonged management of advanced heart failure with the use of continuous flow left ventricular assist devices (LVADs).
Beth T Webber, Anthony L Panos, Yiliam F Rodriguez-Blanco   +2 more
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Surface Coatings for Rotary Ventricular Assist Devices: A Systematic Review

, 2021
Rotary ventricular assist devices (VADs) are frequently used to provide mechanical circulatory support to patients suffering from end-stage heart failure.
Dargusch, Matthew S, Zhang, Meili, Jo P. Pauls, Tansley, Geoffrey D, John F. Fraser, Dargusch, Matthew S., Pauls, Jo P, Geoffrey D. Tansley, Fraser, John F., Pauls, Jo P., Matthew S. Dargusch, Tansley, Geoffrey D., Meili Zhang, Fraser, John F, https://orcid.org/   +14 more
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Ethical challenges with the left ventricular assist device as a destination therapy

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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Left ventricular assist devices [PDF]

Journal of the Intensive Care Society, 2020
Background There is a growing population of patients in the UK with advanced heart failure who are receiving a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as a bridge to transplant. This is due to the plateauing number of heart transplantations and the increasing evidence of the effectiveness of these devices.
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The Inflammatory Response to Ventricular Assist Devices

Frontiers in Immunology, 2018
The therapeutic use of ventricular assist devices (VADs) for end-stage heart failure (HF) patients who are ineligible for transplant has increased steadily in the last decade.
Gemma Radley, Gemma Radley, Ina Laura Pieper, Ina Laura Pieper, Sabrina Ali, Farah Bhatti, Catherine A. Thornton   +6 more
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Perioperative management of left ventricular assist devices

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2016
The use of mechanical circulatory support for patients with severe heart failure is on the rist. The poeoperative, intraoperative and postoperative challenges the anaesthesiologists skills. These are discussed in this review.
O P Sanjay
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