Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
Is left ventricular assist device considered an artificial heart?
5 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
No: An lvad is not considered an artifical heart because it can only replace one chamber (a ventricle).
Answered 8/23/2012
6.1k views
No: It is a short term device to bridge insertion of artificial heart.
Answered 10/5/2012
5.6k views
Yes: Lvads support the left ventricle which is one side of the heart, the left side, that pumps blood to the aorta. The right side pumps blood to the lungs. An artificial heart has both lvad and rvad. Both sides.
Answered 4/16/2016
5.6k views
Related Questions
A member asked:
My son has an appearance of an athletic heart, the left ventricular shortening fraction is 35% and ejection is 66? Is that normal?
4 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
A member asked:
What it is Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction? how bad it's for the heart?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Left ventricular hypertrophy Sinus rhythm Borderline T abnormal inferior leads How danger its for the heart?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Got dysautonomia starting florinef (fludrocortisone), (fludrocortisone) BP 120/60. I read florinef (fludrocortisone) can cause heart left ventricular diastolic reduced efficiency?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
People also searched for:
Will left-ventricular assist device therapy replace need for a heart transplantation?
Is it possible to be too old for heart surgery but not too old for a ventricular assist device?
What number of heart assist devices are there and how do they work?
How bad is mild concentric left ventricular hypertrophy on a heart scan?
I've heard of heart failure but why is lvf (left ventricular failure) different?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
