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Cardiac assist devices
D G Pennington1, M T Swartz, D P Lohmann
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
The Surgical Clinics of North America
|January 19, 1999
Abstract:
During the latter half of the twentieth century, physicians have had the capability to support the circulation with mechanical devices. This article gives an historical overview of those devices. Various devices and their complications are described and evaluated. Patient selection and clinical results also are discussed.