Engineering

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Impeller

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Cardiology

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Heart failure

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Reciprocating pump

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Interim

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Ventricular assist device

Internal medicine

Variable displacement pump

Centrifugal pump

Confidence interval

Axial-flow pump

Medicine

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Destination therapy

History

New England Journal of Medicine

In two interim analyses of this trial, patients with advanced heart failure who were treated with a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow left ventricular assist device were less likely to have pump thrombosis or nondisabling stroke than were patients treated with a mechanical-bearing axial-flow left ventricular assist device.

A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report