How to Use ventricular assist device in a Sentence

ventricular assist device

noun

• Powers is now using a left ventricular assist device (LAVD), which helps pump blood from her left ventricle to the rest of her body.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Feb. 2022
• Black patients were more likely to be prescribed ventricular assist devices, pumps that helps blood flow, than heart transplants, especially if their health care provider was over 40.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
• The device, called an LVAD or left ventricular assist device, is often recommended to patients who have reached a stage of advanced heart failure where their hearts can no longer pump enough blood to meet their body's demand.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• That search unveiled a fourth infected patient, also with a left ventricular assist device.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• One suffered permanent renal damage and a weakened heart requiring a left ventricular assist device, his suit states.
  — Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2018
• The transplant program has also successfully implanted three ventricular assist devices -- electromechanical heart pumps -- without complications in the last year, according to OHSU.
  — oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024