Dr. Gray said he had implanted more than 200 assist devices.

Dr Liotta is still actively working in research and development of new models of heart assist devices, for more information.

I think that assisting devices for transferring someone from bed to chair, those kinds of things, are coming.

The study proved that assist devices, originally meant just to keep a patient live until a heart transplant could be done, can be implanted permanently.

Many participants at the heart association meeting urged researchers to press on with their goal of perfecting total artificial hearts and assist devices.

A number of assist devices are marketed for temporary use as a "bridge to transplant" to keep patients alive while they wait for donor hearts.

Assist devices differ significantly from the widely publicized AbioCor artificial heart, which has been implanted in five patients since July.

The AbioCor, a self-contained total artificial heart, replaces the heart; assist devices leave the heart in place.

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Ventricular assist devices (VADs), which help the heart pump blood.