Ventricular Assist Device Treatment for Pediatric Patients

Continuous-flow ventricular assist devices (CF-VAD) have been widely used in end-stage heart failure in adult patients for both bridge to transplantation and destination therapy. Technology improvement has enabled miniaturization of the CF-VAD, which may greatly benefit the pediatric patients with sufficient body size in advanced heart failure. There are still, however, challenging situations for CF-VAD implantation, such as in single ventricle physiology, anatomically abnormal heart, small children and infants.
Source: Journal of Cardiac Failure - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research