TOTAL CARDIAC PROSTHESIS COMPRISING TWO ASSOCIATED DECOUPLE PUMPS IN A FUNCTIONALLY INDISOCIABLE UNIT, AND ELECTROCOMMANDE VALVES FOR SUCH A PROSTHESIS

Abstract

Abstract Translated from French PROTHESE CARDIAQUE TOTALE DESTINEE A REMPLACER UN COEUR HUMAIN MALADE. SELON L'INVENTION, CETTE PROTHESE COMPORTE UN MODULE PERICARDIQUE3 ET UN MODULE EXTRA-PERICARDIQUE4, INCORPORANT LEUR PROPRE SYSTEME DE POMPAGE ELECTROMECANIQUE ET RELIES L'UN A L'AUTRE PAR UNE LIAISON SANGUINE ET GAZEUSE5. LE MODULE PERICARDIQUE FAIT OFFICE DE COEUR DROIT, ET LE MODULE EXTRA-PERICARDIQUE DE COEUR GAUCHE. TOTAL HEART PROSTHESIS INTENDED TO REPLACE A SICK HUMAN HEART. ACCORDING TO THE INVENTION, THIS PROSTHESIS INCLUDES A PERICARDIQUE3 MODULE AND AN EXTRA-PERICARDIQUE4 MODULE, INCORPORATING THEIR OWN ELECTROMECHANICAL PUMPING SYSTEM AND CONNECTED TO ONE ANOTHER BY A BLOOD AND GAS CONNECTION5. THE PERICARDIIC MODULE ACTS AS THE RIGHT HEART, AND THE EXTRA-PERICARDIIC MODULE OF THE LEFT HEART.

Inventors

• 👤 Didier Lapeyre
• 👤 Jean-Louis Chareire

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