RESEARCH ARTICLE
Artificial Heart Rejects High Tech? Lessens Learnt from Non-pulsatile VAD with Straight Impeller Vanes
Kun-xi Qian*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2007Volume: 1
First Page: 35
Last Page: 37
Publisher ID: TOBEJ-1-35
DOI: 10.2174/1874120700701010035
Article History:
Received Date: 18/6/2007Revision Received Date: 9/7/2007
Acceptance Date: 10/7/2007
Electronic publication date: 17/7/2007
Collection year: 2007
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/) which permits unrestrictive use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Despite the progresses in developing pulsatile impeller pump and impeller total heart, as well as in applying streamlined impeller vanes, the best results in application of artificial heart pumps have been achieved by nonpulsatile univentricular assist pump with straight impeller vanes until now. It seems all efforts and successes have been done in vain because artificial heart rejects Hi-Tech! This paper recalls some important achievements in R&D of artificial heart in past 25 years and shares author’s experiences with the readers.