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The Need to Change Our Objective for Artificial Heart Development: From Totally Implantable Permanent Ventricular Assist Devices to Wearable Therapeutic Ventricular Assist Devices
Author(s) -
Nosé Yukihiko,
Motomura Tadashi,
Miyamoto Hiroshi,
Ohta Kazuhide,
Takaba Junji,
Sugita Yoichi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
artificial organs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1525-1594
pISSN - 0160-564X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01163.x
Subject(s) - medicine , library science , computer science
As a therapeutic VAD to be combined with drugs, apheresis, and cellular implants, it is advisable to develop a wearable VAD for less than 6 months of application. Such an example was shown by describing the therapeutic BCM Gyro centrifugal VAD.