Abstract
A ventricular assist device is disclosed which comprises a sac for wrapping around a portion of a heart, the sac having one or more inflatable chambers for compressing the heart when the chambers being inflated and a blood outlet made to an aorta, the blood outlet being the sole opening in the human blood path in the vicinity of heart, wherein during a systolic phase the inflatable chambers inflate while blood flows out of the aorta through the blood outlet, and during a diastolic phase the inflatable chambers deflate while blood flows into the aorta through the blood outlet.
| Translated title of the contribution | Dual-pulsation bi-Ventricular Assist Device |
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| Original language | English |
| Patent number | 8444545 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 Dec 4 |