Novel para-aortic cardiac assistance using a pre-stretched dielectric elastomer actuator.
Silje Ekroll JahrenThomas MartinezArmando WalterFrancesco ClavicaPaul Philipp HeinischEric BuffleMarkus M LuediJurgen HörerDominik ObristThierry CarrelYoan CivetYves PerriardPublished in: Interdisciplinary cardiovascular and thoracic surgery (2024)
The new setup and the novel para-aortic device presented here helped improve cardiac assistance compared to previous studies. Moreover, we revealed a new way to assist the heart by actuating the device at different starting time to modify the left ventricular stroke volume and stroke work.
Keyphrases
- left ventricular
- atrial fibrillation
- heart failure
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- cardiac resynchronization therapy
- left atrial
- acute myocardial infarction
- aortic stenosis
- mitral valve
- aortic valve
- single cell
- pulmonary artery
- cerebral ischemia
- case control
- coronary artery disease
- brain injury
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- transcatheter aortic valve replacement
- acute coronary syndrome