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journal article·2021-05

Artificial Muscles: High Performance Artificial Muscles to Engineer a Ventricular Cardiac Assist Device and Future Perspectives of a Cardiac Sleeve (Adv. Mater. Technol. 5/2021)

Dharshika Kongahage, Arjang Ruhparwar, Javad Foroughi

Advanced Materials Technologies· Volume 6· Issue 5
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Abstract

Over the past twenty years continuous flow-ventricular assist devices (VADs) have quantitatively become the main instrument for the treatment of end-stage heart failure. However, due to the need for anticoagulation and lack of pulsatility their greatest challenges remain infections, bleedings and thromboembolic events. In article number 2000894, Javad Foroughi and co-workers present an alternative that eliminates the need for anticoagulation and offers a physiologic pulsatile flow where the heart merely acts as a reservoir for blood that is propelled by an electrically contractile artificial muscle wrapped around the heart (WRAP-VAD).
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Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales 2052 Australia

Intelligent Polymer Research Institute University of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales 2522 Australia

University of Essen and the Westgerman Heart and Vascular Center in Germany University of Duisburg‐Essen Hufeland Str. 5545147 Essen Germany

Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute University of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales 2522 Australia

School of Electrical Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences University of Wollongong Wollongong New South Wales 2522 Australia

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