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Company History

Novacor® LVAS

How it Works Operations Pump / Drive Technology Components Product Enhancements Manual

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Company History

Novacor® LVAS

How it Works

WorldHeart's Novacor® LVAS is an abdominally implanted, electro-magnetically driven pump that provides circulatory support by taking over most of the workload of the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber.

Refer to the diagram below for a visual explanation of the product's key components.

This section also describes the product's Operation, Pump/Drive Technology and provides detail about its various Components.