Initial experience with the HeartMate percutaneous heart pump in circulatory failure

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Electronic address: peter.ivak@ikem.cz.
• ³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic; Second Department of Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁵ Abbott Laboratories, Santa Clara, California, USA.
• ⁶ Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA.