How to Use ventricular assist device in a Sentence
ventricular assist device
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Powers is now using a left ventricular assist device (LAVD), which helps pump blood from her left ventricle to the rest of her body.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Feb. 2022
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Black patients were more likely to be prescribed ventricular assist devices, pumps that helps blood flow, than heart transplants, especially if their health care provider was over 40.
—Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
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The device, called an LVAD or left ventricular assist device, is often recommended to patients who have reached a stage of advanced heart failure where their hearts can no longer pump enough blood to meet their body's demand.
—Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
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That search unveiled a fourth infected patient, also with a left ventricular assist device.
—Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
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One suffered permanent renal damage and a weakened heart requiring a left ventricular assist device, his suit states.
—Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
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The transplant program has also successfully implanted three ventricular assist devices -- electromechanical heart pumps -- without complications in the last year, according to OHSU.
—oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2020
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