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Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol · Jun 2012
Review Comparative StudyPulsatile vs. continuous flow in ventricular assist device therapy.
- Gabriel Loor and Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski.
- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA.
- Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol. 2012 Jun 1; 26 (2): 105-15.
AbstractA left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is an important treatment option for a patient with end-stage heart failure. Both continuous and non-pulsatile devices are available, each with different effects on a patient's physiology. In general, these effects are not clinically significant with the exception of bleeding events which are more common with continuous-flow devices in some series. Both devices increase survival beyond medical management. Continuous-flow devices are smaller and are associated with less overall morbidity than pulsatile devices.Copyright © 2012. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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