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Artificial Muscles: High Performance Artificial Muscles to Engineer a Ventricular Cardiac Assist Device and Future Perspectives of a Cardiac Sleeve (Adv. Mater. Technol. 5/2021)
Author(s) -
Kongahage Dharshika,
Ruhparwar Arjang,
Foroughi Javad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
advanced materials technologies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.184
H-Index - 42
ISSN - 2365-709X
DOI - 10.1002/admt.202170025
Subject(s) - pulsatile flow , artificial heart , cardiology , medicine , heart failure , continuous flow , biomedical engineering , blood flow , engineering , biochemical engineering
Over the past twenty years continuous flow‐ventricular assist devices (VADs) have quantitatively become the main instrument for the treatment of end‐stage heart failure. However, due to the need for anticoagulation and lack of pulsatility their greatest challenges remain infections, bleedings and thromboembolic events. In article number 2000894, Javad Foroughi and co‐workers present an alternative that eliminates the need for anticoagulation and offers a physiologic pulsatile flow where the heart merely acts as a reservoir for blood that is propelled by an electrically contractile artificial muscle wrapped around the heart (WRAP‐VAD).