Options for Mechanical Circulatory Support
Ventricular assist devices offer new hope for kids with failing hearts
Published on in Cardiac Connection
Published on in Cardiac Connection
Patients with end-stage heart disease have many treatment options at the Cardiac Center at CHOP — including a variety of ventricular assist devices (VADs) that can serve as a bridge to transplant. “We have the ability to support almost every circulation,” says program director Joseph Rossano, MD, “from kids who have structurally normal hearts to children who have a single ventricle.”
VADs available at CHOP include:
“We’re one of just a handful of hospitals in the country to have multiple different devices to help the different complex circulations that we encounter in pediatric heart failure,” says Rossano. “Patients come from around the country for these therapies. We can help them in ways that weren’t possible as recently as five years ago.”
Categories: Cardiac Connection Fall 2013