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Heart Replacement Artif Heart 1998;6:8–14.  Totally implantable total artificial heart and ventricular assist device with multipurpose miniature electromechanical energy system. Artif Organs 1994;18(l):80–92. Imachi PhD1 1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 2 Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; 3 Courses of Information and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and 4 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Correspondence to: Yusuke Abe, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7–3–1 Hongo, Bunkyo­ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Japan.

B) Change in peak oxygen consumption (peak VO2) after Novacor LVAS implantation and heart transplantation.  Although these devices improved the survival of patients registered to JOTNW, seven patients died during their wait for heart transplantation; only one patient underwent transplant and two are still waiting.  Therefore, we needed to exchange the Toyobo­LVAS pump at several weekly intervals.  Therefore, if implantable LVASs are approved for use in Japan, we will plan to use extracorporeal LVASs for the patients with a possibility of cardiac recovery for short­term support and implantable LVASs as a bridge to transplantation for long­term support.

11, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, and Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Center North­Rhine­Westphalia Bad Oeynhausen, Ruhr­University of Bochum, Germany.  However, due to a shortage of donor organs in recent years, the use of mechanical ventricular support has become indispensable.  A nonpulsatile LVAD (DeBakey VAD axial flow pump) was implanted in one patient.  Cerebral embolism, drive­line and pocket infection were major causes of postoperative morbidity and mortality.

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