Assisted Circulation 3, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1989

Assisted Circulation 3 is an authoritative review of the progress which has been achieved in the last 5 years since the appearance of Assisted Circulation 2 in 1984. The present book highlights the work of well-known experts on - new indications for assisted circulation, - cardiac assist devices as bridges toward transplantation, - temporary mechanical heart support, - results of long term studies into problems of tissue overgrowth, infection, and physiological regulation of cardiac devices, and - new results on cardiac transplantation and the new immunsuppresive regima. Assisted Circulation 3 is the latest product of an ongoing effort by the editors to keep readers abreast of recent advances in the field on a regular basis.

1. The Present Status of Assisted Circulation. Introduction.- 2. Questions and Predictions.- 3. Precedents and Perspectives.- I. Counterpulsation.- 4. Counter pulsation: Stagnation or Evolution in Assisted Circulation?.- 5. Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping: Clinical Aspects and Prospects.- 6. Clinical Experience with Percutaneous Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping.- 7. Systolic Counterpulsation.- II. Cardiac Assistance.- 8. Ventricular Assist Devices: Possibilities and Limits.- 9. Pathological Considerations in Temporary Cardiac Assistance.- 10. Ventricular Assistance: The Pennsylvania State University Experience.- 11. Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support: Clinical Experience with 148 Patients.- 12. Current Status of Clinical Application of Ventricular Assist Devices in Japan.- 13. Centrifugal Pumps in Clinical Practice.- 14. Mechanical Support for Postcardiotomy Heart Failure.- 15. Technique and Results with a Roller Pump for Ventricular Assistance.- 16. Clinical Experience with the Thoratec Ventricular Assist Device.- 17. Progress in Impeller Pumps in China.- 18. The Sealless and Bearingless Rotor Blood Pump System: Adaptation to the Circulatory System and In Vitro Advantages in Efficiency, Flow Characteristics, and Boundary Conditions of Thermal Heat Up.- 19. The Spindle Pump — A Nonpulsatile Blood Pump for Assisted Circulation.- 20. Various Designs of Nonpulsatile Blood Pumps.- III. Bridging to Transplantation.- 21. The Use of Artificial Hearts for Bridging to Transplantation.- 22. Use of Cardiac Assist Devices as Bridges to Cardiac Transplantation: Review of Current Status and Report of the Texas Heart Institute’s Experience.- 23. Experience with the Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplantation.- 24. Temporary Use of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart — The Pittsburgh Experience.- 25. First European Bridge to Heart Transplantation with the Ellipsoid-Heart.- 26. The Total Artificial Heart in Clinical Practice — The Vienna Experience and Point of View.- 27. The Philadelphia Heart System — An Implantable Artificial Heart for a Transplant Center.- 28. Enoximone Therapy: An Alternative Strategy to Temporary Mechanical Support.- 29. Blood Pumps as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation: Characteristics and Development.- IV. Total Artificial Heart.- 30. Toward the Totally Implantable Artificial Heart.- 31. The Use of the Total Artificial Heart.- 32. A Contribution to the Assessment of Pathophysiology in Long-Term Total Artificial Heart Recipients.- 33. Use of an Elliptical Artificial Heart.- 34. In Vivo Testing of a Roller-Screw Type Electric Total Artificial Heart.- 35. Implantable Artificial Hearts.- 36. The Orthotopic Univentricular Artificial Heart.- V. Heart Transplantation.- 37. The Artificial Heart as a Complement to Transplantation?.- 38. Heart Transplantation in Cape Town — A Review of Twenty Years’ Experience.- 39. Recent Advances in Combined Heart-Lung Transplantation.- 40. The Expanding Role of Cardiac Transplantation.- 41. Heart Transplantation — Current Experience at La Pitié Hospital, Paris.- 42. Clinical Application of Implanted Natural Auxiliary Hearts.- VI. Energy Sources.- 43. New Trends in Energy Sources for Cardiac Assist Devices.- 44. Biologic Cardiac Assist: Performance Characteristics.- 45. Design and Stimulation of Biological Cardiac Assist Systems.- 46. Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty to Improve Ventricular Function.- 47. Drive and Management of Circulation Support Systems.- 48. Transcutaneous Energy Transmission for Assisted Circulation.- 49. Endothelialization of Artificial Heart Materials.- VII. Horizons.- 50. Horizons — How Has Assisted Circulation Developed and Where Is It Headed?.- 51. The Total Artificial Heart 1987.- 52. Horizons in Heart Substitution.- 53. Horizons in Assisted Circulation.- 54. The Future of the Artificial Heart.- 55. Horizons in Assisted Circulation.- 56. Horizons in Assisted Circulation.