Quality & Outcomes: Types of VADs
A VAD for Every Heart
Penn Heart & Vascular offers VADs for every patient, whatever their age, size or gender. The following list represents the VADs currently available at Penn Medicine:
FDA Approved VADs
- Syncardia CardioWest™ Total Artificial Heart (TAH-t)
- HeartMate II® LVAD
- Thoratec™ Paracorporeal Blood Pumping System
- Levitronix® Centrimag® VAS
- Impella
- Tandem Heart
- Abiomeds
- Biomedicus
Investigational Devices
- HeartWare® Ventricular Assist System
- Circulite Synergy
- EVAHEART
- SynCardia 50cc Total Articifical Heart
- Thoratec HeartMate III
2012 Penn Heart Failure Clinical Activity Report
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