Soft robotic ventricular assist device with septal bracing for therapy of heart failure
Abstract
A soft robotic device assists blood flow in isolated left or right heart failure by applying rhythmic loading to either ventricle.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 22, 2017
- Source ID
- 10.1126/scirobotics.aan6736
Entities
People
- Christopher J Payne
- Colette Abah
- Conor J. Walsh
- Daniel Bautista-Salinas
- David Van Story
- Isaac Wamala
- Markus A Horvath
- Mossab Saeed
- Nikolay V Vasilyev
- Pedro J Del Nido
- Thomas Thalhofer
Organizations
- Boston Children's Hospital
- Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Technical University of Munich
- United States Department of Defense
- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering