Sentence examples for an assist device from inspiring English sources

People have lived as long as four years with an assist device before a donor heart became available.

If they succeed, then an assist device could let a patient's natural heart rest while cells were injected to form new muscle, said Dr. Rose, of Columbia.

He has pioneered development of a number of mechanical hearts, including an assist device called the HeartMate, which was tested in the study reported last week.

Precisely how many patients would benefit from an assist device or a total artificial heart is not known, but the estimated demand for assist devices is 5 to 10 times that for total artificial hearts.

To develop more specific data, the researchers compared tissue samples from the hearts of people who had died of something other than heart failure with the diseased hearts removed from people who had received transplants, including some who had used an assist device and some who had not.

He ambulates without an assist device and has returned to modified desk work at his original place of employment.

523 (92.7%) were able to walk independently, 40 (7.1%) with an assisting device, and 1 (0.2%) with the help of another person.

Because of inadequate social and family support, Michael had been deemed ineligible for a heart transplant or an artificial assist device.

In a previous study, we had developed and verified the effectiveness of a power assist device with a semi-active assist mechanism and a control method for reducing loads during periodic motion.

But because the wait for a match can be months long, it was necessary that he undergo open-heart surgery and be implanted with a "ventricular assist device," or an artificial heart.

We reviewed the charts and data derived from an electronic patient data management system (COPRA™, Leipzig, Germany) of 41 consecutive adult patients undergoing implantation of a centrifugal assist device as a bridge to recovery.