Mechanical cardiac assistance and replacement.
This article aims not to review the limited and difficult to compare clinical results with mechanical cardiac assist devices. Instead, a practical classification and analysis of these devices is presented, which will afford the clinician insights about when, how, and why to use specific mechanical support.
Washington Heart, Division of Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
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D004735:Energy Transfer / Q000502:physiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000503:physiopathology; D006354:Heart, Artificial; D006353:Heart-Assist Devices / Q000145:classification / Q000191:economics*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration