❤️ Artificial Heart: Advancing Mechanical Circulatory Support
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For patients with severe heart failure who are no longer responding to conventional treatments, artificial hearts represent an important advancement in mechanical circulatory support. These devices are designed to temporarily or permanently replace the pumping function of the heart in carefully selected patients, offering a potential bridge to transplantation or, in certain cases, long-term therapy.
HISTORY / OVERVIEW
Artificial heart is a mechanical circulatory support device that helps maintain blood flow when the heart cannot pump effectively. Unlike ventricular assist devices (VADs), which support one or both ventricles while the patient's heart remains in place, a total artificial heart replaces the native ventricles and heart valves.
Artificial heart technology has evolved through advances in biomaterials, miniaturization, electronics, and control systems, improving device reliability and patient management.
