Heart assist method and catheter

Details Heart assist method and catheter Heart assist method and catheter

1972-05-31

1976-12-07

Truluck, Dalton L.

Surgery

Truss

Perineal

128348, A61M 103

Patent

active

039956172

ABSTRACT:
Method and device for augmenting the action of an ailing heart having an incompetent aortic valve or incompetent left ventricle wherein blood is directly sucked from the left ventricle, while blocking flow to the aorta, and then upon reverse cycle, the blood removed is forced into the aorta, while blocking flow back into the left ventricle.

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patent: 3384089 (1968-05-01), Shriner
patent: 3568659 (1971-03-01), Karnegis
patent: 3592184 (1971-07-01), Watkins et al.
Schuhmann et al.,-Surgery, vol. 67, No. 6, June 1970, pp. 957-968.
Stanley-Surgery-Apr. 1969, vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 649-658.
Sirak et al.-Surgery, vol. 28, No. 2, 1950, pp. 225-234.

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