A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report

R. Mehra, Mandeep; Uriel, Nir; Naka, Yoshifumi; C. Cleveland, Joseph; Yuzefpolskaya, M.; T. Salerno, Christopher; Norine Walsh, Mary; A. Milano, Carmelo; B. Patel, Chetan; W. Hutchins, Steven; Ransom, John; A. Ewald, Gregory; Itoh, Akinobu; Raval, Nirav; Silvestry, Scott; Cogswell, Rebecca; John, Ranjit; Bhimaraj, Arvind; A. Bruckner, Brian; D. Lowes, Brian; Um, John; Jeevanandam, Valluvan; Sayer, Gabriel; A. Mangi, Abeel; Molina, Ezequiel; H. Sheikh, Farooq; D. Aaronson, Keith; D. Pagani, Francis; Cotts, William; Tatooles, Antone; Babu, Ashok; Chomsky, Don; N. Katz, Jason; Tessmann, P.; A. Dean, David; Krishnamoorthy, Arun; Chuang, Joyce; Topuria, Ia; Sood, Poornima; J. Goldstein, Daniel

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1900486

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A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 17, 2019

Authors:

Mandeep R. Mehra

Nir Uriel

Yoshifumi Naka

Abstract

BACKGROUND: In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to have pump thrombosis or nondisabling stroke than were patients treated with a mechanical-be...

Subject

Axial-flow pump

Medicine

Centrifugal pump

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