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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2008
Pong-jeu LU, Tainan, TW;
Pao-yen Lin, Tainan, TW;
Jiin-huey Chern Lin, Winnetka, IL (US);
Chien-ping Ju, Kansas City, MO (US);
Pong-Jeu Lu, Tainan, TW;
Pao-Yen Lin, Tainan, TW;
Jiin-Huey Chern Lin, Winnetka, IL (US);
Chien-Ping Ju, Kansas City, MO (US);
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, TW;
Abstract
A ventricular assist device is disclosed which comprises a sac for wrapping around a portion of a heart, the sac having one or more inflatable chambers for compressing the heart when the chambers being inflated and a blood outlet made to an aorta, the blood outlet being the sole opening in the human blood path in the vicinity of heart, wherein during a systolic phase the inflatable chambers inflate while blood flows out of the aorta through the blood outlet, and during a diastolic phase the inflatable chambers deflate while blood flows into the aorta through the blood outlet.