A biventricular assist device (BiVAD) is an implantable pump. It is designed to help your heart function better when both the right and left pumping chambers of your heart are failing.

While left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) are common treatment for patients with heart failure, a sizeable portion of LVAD recipients demonstrate clinically significant postoperative right ventricular failure and potentially require a biventricular assist device (BiVAD).

2024年10月25日 · What is a Bi Ventricular Assist Device? Why is BiVAD required? Biventricular Assist Devices are a type of mechanical circulatory support devices that will be required for persons with Congestive Heart Failure. This condition causes heart and heart-function to weaken progressively with time.

DISCUSSION: Biventricular assist devices (BiVADs) support the heart by providing prolonged reduction in preload and afterload, thereby decreasing cardiac remodeling by reducing cardiac myocyte hypertrophy and myofibroblast activation.

This article presents a technical review of BiVADs, both clinically applied and under development. The BiVADs which have been used clinically are predominantly first generation, pulsatile, and paracorporeal systems that are bulky and prone to device failure, thrombus formation, and …

2005年8月30日 · Thus, in patients with severely decompensated heart failure with signs of significant right ventricular failure in whom an LVAD alone may not provide adequate circulatory support, we believed a strategy of planned biventricular assist device (BiVAD) implantation would be more effective.

What is a biventricular assist device? A biventricular assist device (BiVAD) is an implantable pump. It is designed to help your heart function better when both the right and left pumping chambers of your heart are failing.

A Biventricular Assist Device (BIVAD) is a mechanical pump that supports both the left and right ventricles of the heart. It is often used in patients with severe heart failure, where both sides of the heart are unable to pump blood effectively.

Although primarily indicated for left ventricular failure, ventricular assist devices (VADs) have become utilized in a biventricular setup to combat right ventricular failure (RVF) following LVAD implantation.

2023年9月8日 · This chapter discusses continuous flow biventricular support devices, with focus on indications, device types, implantation techniques, and associated outcome. Over the following years, the number of implanted biventricular assist devices (BiVADs) continued to grow, albeit at …