Cardiocirculatory Assistance and Total Artificial Heart.

Abstract

* Domingo Liotta, Michael DeBakey, Denton Cooley, Stanley Crawford created Cardiocirculatory Assistance - Left Ventricular Assist Systems - at Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA (1962) and began its clinical application. * Domingo Liotta and Denton Cooley developed the prosthesis for clinical use for total heart replacement in an orthotopic position at Baylor University College of Medicine and the Texas Heart Institute and began its clinical application (1969). * Domingo Liotta began the development of Cardiocirculatory Assistance in Argentina (1971 and continues). * Today, on the horizon of cardiocirculatory assistance and the total artificial heart, new possibilities are glimpsed for the treatment of advanced heart failure. Heart transplantation is not a solution to the true epidemic of patients with severe heart failure, basically due to the numerical lack of donors and the progressive increase in the disease as observed in medical practice.