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Author(s):
Christopher S Hayward
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Marc Swartz
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3 years ago
Heart failure is an escalating global pandemic and one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developed world. At present, the incidence of heart failure in the Western world is staggering, affecting approximately 6.5 million people in Europe and 5.8 million people in the US.1–3 Even more alarming is the notion that approximately 10 % of this population suffers from advanced heart…
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Author(s):
Dominik Wiedemann
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Thomas Haberl
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Julia Riebandt
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et al
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3 years ago
History of Mechanical Circulatory Support
The first reported clinical use of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) was by Liotta and Crawford in 1963. Via a left thoracotomy, an intracorporeal pneumatically driven pump was implanted using left atrial inflow and descending thoracic aortic outflow. Despite the successful implantation, the patient died within a short period of time after the…
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Author(s):
Patrycja Ganslmeier
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Christof Schmid
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3 years ago
End-stage heart failure is a leading cause of death of modern society. In the US almost five million people suffer from heart failure, with an annual incidence of 500,000 new cases. About 10% of the population beyond 70 years of age are affected (www.nhlbi.nih.gov). Estimations for Europe amount to 10 million and heart failure has overtaken cancer as the leading cause of death (www.destatis.de)…
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Author(s):
Kiran K Khush
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Sharon A Hunt
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3 years ago
The field of heart transplantation has evolved tremendously since Alexis Carrel first explanted a canine heart and anastomosed it to the carotid artery and jugular vein of a recipient dog in 1905.1 In 1960, Norman Shumway and Richard Lower at Stanford described a technique for orthotopic canine heart transplantation and demonstrated adequate physiologic function of the denervated heart.2 Their…
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