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Artificial heart pump with pulsatile flow (Scandinavian Real Heart)

The shortage of donor hearts and the physiological impact of pulsatile perfusion have driven technical innovation research efforts to create a positive displacement total artificial heart that can produce pulsatile flow and has a reasonable size for long-term assist in chronic heart failure.

Such a product is the Scandinavian Real Heart鈥檚 pump which is a new pulsatile totally artificial heart. Scandinavian Real Heart (SRH) is a Swedish company developing a heart pump, 鈥漅eal Heart鈥� which is a new generation of total artificial hearts with pulsatile flow.

The project was founded by Azad Najar in 1999 and the development of the heart pump has been running since 17 years. We studied in the first instance the basic principles of the surgical and anesthesiological techniques we developed for implantation of the latest prototype of this device. The Real Heart delivers a physiological pulsatile perfusion.

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Scandinavian Real Heart

Real Heart is a new generation of total artificial hearts with positive displacement. 

Scandinavian Real Heart is a Swedish company developing a heart pump 鈥漅eal Heart鈥� with a pulsatile flow and with a design that mimics the natural heart's construction with two ventricles and two atria. Cooperation between Swedish industry and academia is vital for the future.
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Implantation of the device Real Heart 11 inside the pig thorax.
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The implanted device Real Heart 11 in the pig thorax.
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Pulsatile flow on the monitor from the device in the left carotid artery of the pig.
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The pulsatile flow generated by Real Heart 11 in the right carotid artery.

Publications

Zoltán Szabó, Jonas Holm, Azad Najar, Göran Hellers, Henrik Ahn (2017)

Journal of Clinical & Experimental Cardiology , Vol.8

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Zoltán Szabó

Adjunct Associate Professor

Innovator and founder of Scandinavian Real Heart.

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