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Science 8 February 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5557, pp. 998 - 999
DOI: 10.1126/science.1068555
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Mechanical Circulatory Support--a Long and Winding Road

Patrick M. McCarthy,12* William A. Smith2

The highly public reintroduction of the total artificial heart last year has prompted renewed interest in mechanical circulatory support systems for the treatment of end-stage heart disease.

1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure,
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mccartp{at}ccf.org

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