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Total Artificial Hearts-Past, Current, and Future
Carson S Fox1, Kelli L McKenna1, Paul E Allaire2
1From the BioCirc Research Laboratory, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|September 26, 2015
Abstract:
We present a review of the evolution of total artificial hearts (TAHs) and new directions in development, including the coupling of VADs as biventricular TAH support.
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