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2. Ventricular assist device - Wikipedia

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   In a small number of cases left ventricular assist devices, combined with drug therapy, have enabled the heart to recover sufficiently for the device to be able to be removed (explanted). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Several surgical approaches, including interventional decommissioning, off-pump explantation using a custom-made plug and complete LVAD removal ...

3. William F. Bernhard - Wikipedia

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   Bernhard is a Professor of Surgery, Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and conducted many of his breakthrough surgeries for implantation of the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) in other Harvard affiliated hospitals. During his career Bernhard also served as an attending surgeon thoracic cardiovascular surgery at the VA Hospital, West ...

4. O. H. Frazier - Wikipedia

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   O. H. "Bud" Frazier is a heart surgeon and director of cardiovascular surgery research at the Texas Heart Institute (THI), best known for his work in mechanical circulatory support (MCS) of failing hearts using left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and total artificial hearts (TAH).

5. This Father of 3 Thought His Cough Was a Lingering Flu ... - AOL

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   They can receive a heart pump, known as a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) to help the heart pump blood or a heart transplant. “Before we designate a patient with that diagnosis, we need to ...

6. Artificial heart - Wikipedia

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   The first Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) system was created by Domingo Liotta at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston in 1962. [92] Another VAD, the Kantrowitz CardioVad, designed by Adrian Kantrowitz, boosts the native heart by taking up over 50% of its function. [93]

7. Thoratec - Wikipedia

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   With the 2001 Thermo Cardiosystems merger, Thoratec acquired the HeartMate Left Ventricular Assist System, an implanted VAD for end-stage heart patients. A landmark three-year study of 129 patients at 22 major medical centers, called REMATCH (Randomized Evaluation of Mechanical Assistance for the Treatment of Congestive Heart Failure) and published in November 2001, found that the HeartMate VE ...