Uploaded and Shared in Youtube by: newyorkpresbyterian Dr. Evelyn Horn, Director of Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension at the Perkin Heart Failure Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, discusses Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD). LVAD's are implantable devices that help the heart to pump in patients with end-stage heart failure. They are sometimes used as a "bridge" while patients wait for a heart transplant or recover from cardiac incidents. More recently, LVAD's are also being used as a permanent method to help hearts function. This video with Dr. Horn is from a web cast at the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York-Presbyterian. You can learn more about Dr. Horn at: http://www.weillcornell.org/emhorn
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) - Dr. Evelyn Horn
Date: 18 Jan 2010
Uploader: Symposier
Lenght: 9m 53s
Specialty:
Biotechnology
Cardiology
Cardiovascular Surgery
