TY - CHAP AU - Tomoko Sugiyama Kato AU - Kazuo Komamura AU - Noboru Oda AU - Taro Sasaoka AU - Ikutaro Nakajima AU - Ayako Tkakahashi AU - Masafumi Kitakaze ED - Jeffrey Shuhaiber Y1 - 2011-04-26 PY - 2011 T1 - Long-Term Management of Pulsatile Extracorporeal Left Ventricular Assist Device N2 - The assist devices will continue adding a large number of years of life to humans globally and empower the medical society to optimize heart failure therapy. While expensive and cumbersome task, the foundation provided in this book reflects a contemporary product of original research from a multitude of different experts in the field. We hope this cumulative international effort provides the necessary tools for both the novice as well as the active practitioner aiming to change the outcome of these complex patients. BT - Ventricular Assist Devices SP - Ch. 11 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/15118 DO - 10.5772/15118 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-29 ER -