Heart-Assist Devices
| Medical Definition: |
Small pumps, often implantable, designed for temporarily assisting the heart, usually the left ventricle, to pump blood; they consist of a pumping chamber and a power source, which may be partially or totally external to the body and activated by electromagnetic motors; the devices are used after myocardial infarction or to wean the repaired heart from the heart-lung machine after open-heart surgery. |
| Also Called: |
Artificial Ventricle |
| Previously Indexed: |
Assisted Circulation (1967-1985),Heart, Artificial (1967-1985),Pacemaker, Artificial (1966-1985) |
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