Open AccessFirst Clinical Experience With the DeBakey VAD Continuous-Axial-Flow Pump for Bridge to Transplantation
Author(s) -
Georg Wieselthaler,
Heinrich Schima,
M. Hiesmayr,
Richard Pacher,
Günther Laufer,
George P. Noon,
Michael E. DeBakey,
Ernst Wolner
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
circulation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795
H-Index - 607
eISSN - 1524-4539
pISSN - 0009-7322
DOI - 10.1161/01.cir.101.4.356
Subject(s) - medicine , bridge to transplantation , ventricular assist device , continuous flow , transplantation , economic shortage , circulatory system , blood flow , heart transplantation , surgery , bridge (graph theory) , cardiac index , cardiology , hemolysis , heart failure , hemodynamics , cardiac output , mechanics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , linguistics , physics
A shortage of donor organs and increased numbers of deaths of patients on the waiting list for cardiac transplantation make mechanical circulatory support for a bridge to transplantation a standard clinical procedure. Continuous-flow rotary blood pumps offer exciting new perspectives.
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