Since the first widespread clinical application of left ventricular assist devices ... more durable than their predecessors. Axial flow pumps and centrifugal pumps offer some promise of improved ...

Currently there are three clinically accepted axial-flow devices available—the Debakey VAD ® (MicroMed Technology, Inc., Houston, TX), 3 the Jarvik 2000 ® (Robert Jarvik, New York, NY), 4 and ...

In general, a pulsatile VAD is paracorporeal, and an axial VAD is intracorporeal ... II is currently the only continuous-flow left-ventricular assist device (LVAD) approved by the FDA for both ...