Right or biventricular ventricular assist device (RVAD or BiVAD)
Continuing our theme from yesterday on LVAD , Right Ventricular assist device (RVAD) provide support for failed right ventricle and connects it to pulmonary artery. Another extreme is to provide support to both ventricles simultaneously and its called BiVAD or Biventricular assist device.
Related: See Video Dr. Dow's pump from Dr. Cohen at Texas Heart Institute, Houston - also describing mechanism of presently used pulsatile and centrifugal (continuous) VADs.
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