Surgery – Cardiac augmentation
Patent
1999-06-03
2000-11-14
Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.
Surgery
Cardiac augmentation
623 3, A61M 112
Patent
active
061463256
ABSTRACT:
An implantable VAD (preferably an LVAD) includes a compliance chamber which forms a reservoir for liquid extending from adjacent the bottom of the compliance chamber upwardly towards the top of the compliance chamber, and a chamber for gas disposed above the liquid reservoir and extending upwardly to the top of the compliance chamber. The gas chamber is in gaseous communication with a blood pump via a conduit. A subcutaneous port is in liquid and gaseous communication with the liquid reservoir via a second conduit for introducing make-up gas into or removing excess gas from the gas chamber via the liquid reservoir and for removing accumulated liquid from the liquid reservoir. An outlet cannula comprises a hard polymer tubing commencing adjacent the pump and a relatively soft graft tubing terminating adjacent the tube adapted to enter the aorta, a distal end of the hard polymer tubing and a proximal end of the graft tubing being secured together by a snap-fit connector. A sewable apical cuff is provided for sewing attachment of the inlet cannula to a chamber of the heart, and a collet ring clamp secures together the distal end of the apical cuff and the distal end of the tube.
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Fulmer Glenn
Lewis Jeffrey P.
Newswanger Raymond
Werley Troy A.
Arrow International Inc.
Jastrzab Jeffrey R.
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