Left ventricular assist devices—current state and perspectives
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Markus Krane; Anatol Prinzing; Bernhard Voss; Rüdiger Lange; Ulf Herold; Anna Berkefeld
- Source
- Journal of Thoracic Disease. 8:E660-E666
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Heart transplantation
medicine.medical_specialty
Cost effectiveness
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
0206 medical engineering
Review Article
02 engineering and technology
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
020601 biomedical engineering
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Heart failure
Ventricular assist device
Internal medicine
Risk stratification
medicine
Cardiology
End stage heart failure
business
Intensive care medicine
- Language
- ISSN
- 2077-6624
2072-1439
Mechanical circulatory support devices have become an important treatment tool for severe acute and chronic heart failure, since heart transplantation cannot meet the demands because of a lack of available donor organs. Since implantation of the first ventricular assist device a constant development of the suitability of these devices has been made. This review will introduce different generations of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and elaborate on clinical indications, risk stratification and current literature.