• Beijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100029, P. R. China;
ZHANG Hongjia, Email: zhanghongjia722@ccmu.edu.cn
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As a global disease, heart failure affects at least 26 million people, and its prevalence is still rising. Besides, the mortality rate and readmission rate remain high. Advanced heart failure is the terminal stage of various heart diseases, and often requires some treatments other than drug intervention, such as heart transplantation which is the gold standard for treatment of heart failure. However, limited by the number of donors, the number of heart transplants in the world has reached a bottleneck. There is a huge gap between the number of patients who need heart transplants and patients who get hearts for survival successfully in reality. With the exploration and development of mechanical circulation support devices for more than half a century, they have become a wonderful treatment for patients with advanced heart failure. This article will introduce the latest progress of mechanical circulatory support devices at home and abroad from the aspects of temporary and long-term devices.

Citation: LIU Zhou, ZHANG Hongjia. The progress of mechanical circulatory support devices. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023, 30(9): 1355-1361. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202201028 Copy

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