Continuous-Flow Circulatory Support: The Achilles Heel of Current-Generation Left Ventricular Assist Devices?

Circ Heart Fail. 2015 Sep;8(5):850-2. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002472.
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; blood pressure; heart failure; pulsatile flow; vascular stiffness.

Publication types

  • Editorial
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Aorta, Thoracic / physiopathology*
  • Female
  • Heart Failure / physiopathology*
  • Heart-Assist Devices*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Vascular Stiffness / physiology*