TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechanical alternatives to the human heart
T2 - Intracorporeal assist systems and total artificial heart
AU - Lavee, Jacob
AU - Paz, Yoav
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The currently available intracorporeal assist systems and total artificial heart provide long-term support for patients terminally ill with congestive heart failure, often in an out-of-hospital environment. While they are currently widely used mainly as a long-term bridge to heart transplantation, their inherent risks of infection or stroke are prompting interest in future devices that will be smaller, fully implantable and hopefully stroke-free. These devices will be described in the last part of this review.
AB - The currently available intracorporeal assist systems and total artificial heart provide long-term support for patients terminally ill with congestive heart failure, often in an out-of-hospital environment. While they are currently widely used mainly as a long-term bridge to heart transplantation, their inherent risks of infection or stroke are prompting interest in future devices that will be smaller, fully implantable and hopefully stroke-free. These devices will be described in the last part of this review.
KW - Artificial heart
KW - Congestive heart failure
KW - Heart transplantation
KW - Ventricular assist device
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C2 - 11908267
AN - SCOPUS:0036279399
SN - 1565-1088
VL - 4
SP - 209
EP - 212
JO - Israel Medical Association Journal
JF - Israel Medical Association Journal
IS - 3
ER -