Soft robotic ventricular assist device with septal bracing for therapy of heart failure

Christopher J. Payne; Isaac Wamala; Daniel Bautista-Salinas; Mossab Saeed; David Van Story; Thomas Thalhofer; Markus A. Horvath; Colette Abah; Pedro J. del Nido; Conor J. Walsh; Nikolay V. Vasilyev

doi:10.1126/scirobotics.aan6736

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Soft robotic ventricular assist device with septal bracing for therapy of heart failure

View ORCID ProfileChristopher J. Payne¹,²,
View ORCID ProfileIsaac Wamala³,⁴,
View ORCID ProfileDaniel Bautista-Salinas³,
View ORCID ProfileMossab Saeed³,
View ORCID ProfileDavid Van Story¹,²,³,
View ORCID ProfileThomas Thalhofer¹,²,⁵,
View ORCID ProfileMarkus A. Horvath¹,²,⁶,
Colette Abah¹,²,
View ORCID ProfilePedro J. del Nido³,
View ORCID ProfileConor J. Walsh¹,²,* and
View ORCID ProfileNikolay V. Vasilyev³,*

¹Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
²Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
³Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
⁴Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
⁵Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁶Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

↵*Corresponding author. Email: nikolay.vasilyev{at}childrens.harvard.edu (N.V.V.); walsh{at}seas.harvard.edu (C.J.W.)

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Science Robotics 22 Nov 2017:
Vol. 2, Issue 12, eaan6736
DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.aan6736

Christopher J. Payne

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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Isaac Wamala

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Daniel Bautista-Salinas

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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Mossab Saeed

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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David Van Story

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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Thomas Thalhofer

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

5Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

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Markus A. Horvath

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

6Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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Colette Abah

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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Pedro J. del Nido

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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Conor J. Walsh

1Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, 3 Blackfan Circle, Longwood, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

2Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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For correspondence: nikolay.vasilyev@childrens.harvard.edu walsh@seas.harvard.edu

Nikolay V. Vasilyev

3Department of Cardiac Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.

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For correspondence: nikolay.vasilyev@childrens.harvard.edu walsh@seas.harvard.edu

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