Ventricular assist device

Details Ventricular assist device Ventricular assist device

1991-03-29

1992-12-08

Howell, Kyle L.

Surgery

Cardiac augmentation

128 64, A61M 112

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active

051693810

ABSTRACT:
A ventricular assist device for documenting compressive forces on the right and left ventricular surface of a heart in terms of pressure reactions transmitted from fluid contents in sacs adjacent to these ventricular surfaces to apparatus for displaying the reactions, and a method of monitoring these pressure forces and their effects on the ventricular surfaces for circulating the blood from the ventricular blood pools into the right and left arterial systems.

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patent: 4690134 (1987-09-01), Snyders
patent: 4957477 (1990-09-01), Lundback

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