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A Personalized History of Rotary Blood Pumps

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Given the current state of sophistication and clinical acceptance of mechanical circulatory assist devices (MCAD’s), based on rotary blood pumps, it may be hard for those who did not live through the developmental years to imagine a time when even the suggestion of using rotary blood pumps to assist the failing ventricle was considered crazy and akin to clinical heresy. The technical barriers we faced were formidable; however, deeply entrenched mistaken paradigms regarding rotary blood pumps proved much more daunting to overcome. It took 30 years from the infancy of rotary blood pump technology to achieve acceptance as an effective device for the treatment of end-stage heart failure. To the best of my recollection, review of the literature and conversations with O. H. Frazier, Leonard Golding, and Kenneth Butler, this is what happened.

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    Richard Wampler MD

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  1. Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Jamshid H. Karimov

  2. Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Kiyotaka Fukamachi

  3. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure Heart, Thoracic, and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Randall C. Starling

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Wampler, R. (2020). A Personalized History of Rotary Blood Pumps. In: Karimov, J., Fukamachi, K., Starling, R. (eds) Mechanical Support for Heart Failure . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47809-4_2

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