Assisted Circulation 3 is an authoritative review of the progress which has been achieved in the last 5 years since the appearance of Assisted Circulation 2 in 1984. The present book highlights the work of well-known experts on - new indications for assisted circulation, - cardiac assist devices as bridges toward transplantation, - temporary mechanical heart support, - results of long term studies into problems of tissue overgrowth, infection, and physiological regulation of cardiac devices, and - new results on cardiac transplantation and the new immunsuppresive regima. Assisted Circulation 3 is the latest product of an ongoing effort by the editors to keep readers abreast of recent advances in the field on a regular basis.

1. The Present Status of Assisted Circulation. Introduction

2. Questions and Predictions
3. Precedents and Perspectives
I. Counterpulsation
4. Counter pulsation: Stagnation or Evolution in Assisted Circulation?
5. Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping: Clinical Aspects and Prospects
6. Clinical Experience with Percutaneous Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping
7. Systolic Counterpulsation
II. Cardiac Assistance
8. Ventricular Assist Devices: Possibilities and Limits
9. Pathological Considerations in Temporary Cardiac Assistance
10. Ventricular Assistance: The Pennsylvania State University Experience
11. Temporary Mechanical Circulatory Support: Clinical Experience with 148 Patients
12. Current Status of Clinical Application of Ventricular Assist Devices in Japan
13. Centrifugal Pumps in Clinical Practice
14. Mechanical Support for Postcardiotomy Heart Failure
15. Technique and Results with a Roller Pump for Ventricular Assistance
16. Clinical Experience with the Thoratec Ventricular Assist Device
17. Progress in Impeller Pumps in China
18. The Sealless and Bearingless Rotor Blood Pump System: Adaptation to the Circulatory System and In Vitro Advantages in Efficiency, Flow Characteristics, and Boundary Conditions of Thermal Heat Up
19. The Spindle Pump - A Nonpulsatile Blood Pump for Assisted Circulation
20. Various Designs of Nonpulsatile Blood Pumps
III. Bridging to Transplantation
21. The Use of Artificial Hearts for Bridging to Transplantation
22. Use of Cardiac Assist Devices as Bridges to Cardiac Transplantation: Review of Current Status and Report of the Texas Heart Institute's Experience
23. Experience with the Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Transplantation
24. Temporary Use of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart - The Pittsburgh Experience
25. First European Bridge to Heart Transplantation with the Ellipsoid-Heart
26. The Total Artificial Heart in Clinical Practice - The Vienna Experience and Point of View
27. The Philadelphia Heart System - An Implantable Artificial Heart for a Transplant Center
28. Enoximone Therapy: An Alternative Strategy to Temporary Mechanical Support
29. Blood Pumps as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation: Characteristics and Development
IV. Total Artificial Heart
30. Toward the Totally Implantable Artificial Heart
31. The Use of the Total Artificial Heart
32. A Contribution to the Assessment of Pathophysiology in Long-Term Total Artificial Heart Recipients
33. Use of an Elliptical Artificial Heart
34. In Vivo Testing of a Roller-Screw Type Electric Total Artificial Heart
35. Implantable Artificial Hearts
36. The Orthotopic Univentricular Artificial Heart
V. Heart Transplantation
37. The Artificial Heart as a Complement to Transplantation?
38. Heart Transplantation in Cape Town - A Review of Twenty Years' Experience
39. Recent Advances in Combined Heart-Lung Transplantation
40. The Expanding Role of Cardiac Transplantation
41. Heart Transplantation - Current Experience at La Pitié Hospital, Paris
42. Clinical Application of Implanted Natural Auxiliary Hearts
VI. Energy Sources
43. New Trends in Energy Sources for Cardiac Assist Devices
44. Biologic Cardiac Assist: Performance Characteristics
45. Design and Stimulation of Biological Cardiac Assist Systems
46. Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty to Improve Ventricular Function
47. Drive and Management of Circulation Support Systems
48. Transcutaneous Energy Transmission for Assisted Circulation
49. Endothelialization of Artificial Heart Materials
VII. Horizons
50. Horizons - How Has Assisted Circulation Developed and Where Is It Headed?
51. The Total Artificial Heart 1987
52. Horizons in Heart Substitution
53. Horizons in Assisted Circulation
54. The Future of the Artificial Heart
55. Horizons in Assisted Circulation
56. Horizons in Assisted Circulation.