Preliminary study to the development of a right ventricular assist device for the patients with univentricular heart: an animal model
(2005) Transplantationsmedizin — Vol. 17, p. 131-135 (2005)
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- Children with univentricular pathologies in whom a biventricular repair is impossible can survive with a palliative repair. Thereafter, only a Fontan correction or a heart-lung transplantation can be proposed. But, we believe that an implantable VAD could palliate the lack of organ for transplantation. We decided to explore the possibility of a definitive RVAD in the pulmonary circulation in the situation of univentricular heart. The aim of the present study was to test in this situation if a pulsatile or non-pulsatile device had different effects on pulmonary vascular reactivity.
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Vercruysse, J., d’udekem d’Acoz, Y., Saliez, A., Legrand, E., Noirhomme, P., Gianello, P., & Jacquet, L.-M. (2005). Preliminary study to the development of a right ventricular assist device for the patients with univentricular heart: an animal model. Transplantationsmedizin, 17, 131-135. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/192560 (Original work published 2005)