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Use of Two Intracorporeal Ventricular Assist Devices As a Total Artificial Heart
Published on: May 11, 2018
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1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine.
Abstract:
Despite the recent remarkable advances in the medical treatment for severe end-stage heart failure, we still need a more powerful therapy to save patients presenting with cardiogenic shock or progressive cardiac deterioration. The implantation of ventricular assist system (VAS) is one of the available strategies in such patients and it has been used as a bridge to recovery or a bridge to transplantation. Because of the severe shortage of brain -dead donors, the role of VAS is now expanding into an alternative to transplantation, which is called a destination therapy. This review summarizes the current application and the future direction of VAS therapy for end -stage heart failure in Japan.
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