LVAD or Dor

Posted By Q. Grant on July 26, 1999 at 09:49:34
Twenty years ago I graduated BSc with majors in Physiology, Biochemistry and Genetics. I am now 46 and a serious sufferer of CHF caused by a clott in a circumflex stent. My Pulmonary artery pressure is 70/31 with a mean of 45 but pulmonary vascular resistance is low at 1.97. There is significant impared left ventricular function. All my arteries are now clear and the stents are open and have been so for over six months. This is unlikely to change.
I self mediate (and run graphs of H/R B/P and weight gain/loss) under close liason with a wonderfull cardiologist Dr Jane Somerville. The area, however that she can not advise upon is the choice between Transplant which she recomends (She is worried about renal failure due to the fact that I need up to 240mg of fruzamide per day plus 25mg captopril and 0.125mg digoxin to keep the fluid retention at bay), Dor, or LVAD which I prefer in view of the fact that I react very badly to all drugs and stem cell research seem so close to being able to provide a solution. Also I am (or was six months ago) very fit and active, and there is no problem with the right side of my heart at all.
With regard to LVAD I saw a program recently on a LVAD which was developed in conjunction with NASA and a very emenant cardioogist who is now over 90 years old. The LVAD consisted of an impellor pump located in a stainless steel housing. I can find no reference to this on the net. Do you know of this system.  The thought of living like the chrocodile in Peter Pan with a loud clanking device is not on.
Thanks for your time
QG











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