From the news story:
The LVAD is a mechanical pump that is implanted inside of a person’s chest to help the heart pump blood. Unlike an artificial heart, it doesn’t replace the heart. Rather, it just helps it do its job.
“What the pump does is we surgically implant it into the left ventricle, to the apex of the left ventricle. Then we connect an outflow device to the aorta, and what it does is when you turn it on, it will actually draw blood out of the left ventricle and push it into the aorta, doing the work of the left ventricle,” said Dr. Orazio Amabile, a cardio-thoracic surgeon. “Because the left ventricle is failing, it doesn’t work, it cant eject very well out of the aortic valve and into the body.”
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ABC 15 News featured one our patients in a story about an alternative to a heart transplant. The LVAD is a battery-powered pump that circulates blood on its own and bypasses the left ventricle. This device is being used as a long-term, permanent solution for people with heart failure.
“Fifty percent of the patients will pass away within ten years after a heart transplant,” said Dr. Orazio Amabile, Barry’s surgeon. “This is lasting people up to ten years now so it may be taking over transplant in the future.”
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At the 6th annual Northern Arizona Cardio Conference for Primary Care held at the Twin Arrows Casino Resort in Flagstaff Dr. Fang presented the session Structural Valve THerapies: TMVR – the Next Frontier. This session addressed the emerging technologies for the percutaneous treatment of mitral valve disease and novel devices directed at the replacement of the failing mitral valve.
Phoenix Cardiac Surgery is proud to provide our services at Banner Health. This award was given to hospitals and systems that were preferred by patients and physicians 2 to 1 over competitors for a specialty in their local region. The awards were based on surveys on hospital preferences. Banner Hospital was awarded in the cardiology and cardiac surgery category. These hospitals perform procedures including angioplasty, coronary bypass, heart valve replacement, pacemaker or defibrillator placement, and stent placement.
Dr. Tasset is featured in this video from Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix following nurses and physicians using ECMO, an organ bypass machine, to oxygenate blood in patients with COVID-19 who cannot take in sufficient oxygen on their own or with the assistance of a ventilator. More than 80 nurses at this facility are trained on ECMO, making it one of the largest programs in the southwest. The ECMO program was founded at Banner in response to the H1N1 pandemic in 2009.
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Dr Tasset is featured in this video from Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix following nurses and physicians using ECMO, an organ bypass machine, to oxygenate blood in patients with COVID-19 who cannot take in sufficient oxygen on their own or with the assistance of a ventilator More than 80 [..]
From the news story:
The LVAD is a mechanical pump that is implanted inside of a person’s chest to help the heart pump blood Unlike an artificial heart, it doesn’t replace the heart Rather, it just helps it do its job
“What the pump does is we surgically implant it into [..]
