Implantable Left Ventricular Assist System
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Implantable left ventricular assist system.
The first clinical application of the first-generation pulsatile implantable left ventricular assist system (LVAS) was in the mid 1980 s as a bridge to transplantation and contributed to an advancement of this field from a clinical experiment to an established therapeutic option for treating advanced heart failure patients. However, there have been technological limitations that have surfaced a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Circulation Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1346-9843,1347-4820
DOI: 10.1253/circj.cj-09-0221