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[The artificial heart. Current experiences].

D Loisance·P Deleuze
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Various assistance or replacement systems, usually including pneumatic pumps, are now used in human medicine to treat irreversible shocks. These systems are still very far from the ideal artificial heart, but they enable the ventricular work to be partially or totally achieved for a limited length of time, thus ensuring the patient's survival pending heart transplantation. The two systems most frequently used nowadays, i.e. orthotopic ventricular prosthesis or "internal artificial heart" and ventricular shunt or "external artificial heart" are described. The clinical experience available provides a first evaluation of the true performance of these systems.

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D Loisance, P Deleuze. 1989. [The artificial heart. Current experiences].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2502965/

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