A Fully Magnetically Levitated Circulatory Pump for Advanced Heart Failure

In a randomized trial, 294 patients with advanced heart failure were assigned to receive either a new centrifugal-flow pump or an axial-flow pump. At 6 months, the centrifugal-flow pump was associated with better outcomes. A scarcity of effective therapeutic options for advanced heart failure has le...

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Published in:	The New England journal of medicine Vol. 376; no. 5; pp. 440 - 450
Main Authors:	Mehra, Mandeep R, Naka, Yoshifumi, Uriel, Nir, Goldstein, Daniel J, Cleveland, Joseph C, Colombo, Paolo C, Walsh, Mary N, Milano, Carmelo A, Patel, Chetan B, Jorde, Ulrich P, Pagani, Francis D, Aaronson, Keith D, Dean, David A, McCants, Kelly, Itoh, Akinobu, Ewald, Gregory A, Horstmanshof, Douglas, Long, James W, Salerno, Christopher
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Massachusetts Medical Society 02.02.2017
Subjects:	Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Clinical outcomes Disease-Free Survival Heart diseases Heart failure Heart Failure - mortality Heart Failure - therapy Heart-Assist Devices - adverse effects Humans Intention to Treat Analysis Kaplan-Meier Estimate Middle Aged Motivation Navigation behavior Patients Prosthesis Design Prosthesis Failure Quality of life Stroke Stroke - etiology Surgeons Survival Thrombosis Thrombosis - etiology Transplantation Transplants & implants Ventricle Young Adult United States > US
ISSN:	0028-4793, 1533-4406
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