How to Use ventricular assist device in a Sentence

ventricular assist device

noun

• The girls do feel different with the left ventricular assist device.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 3 Sep. 2024
• That search unveiled a fourth infected patient, also with a left ventricular assist device.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• In the first, surgeons implanted the heart pump, a device called a left ventricular assist device, to replace the function of her failing heart.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 24 Apr. 2024
• Known as a left ventricular assist device, the HeartMate 3 helps the main pumping chamber of the heart pump blood to the rest of the body.
  — Daniel Chang, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2023
• It's called a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
• Black patients were more likely to be prescribed ventricular assist devices, pumps that helps blood flow, than heart transplants, especially if their health care provider was over 40.
  — Mary Kilpatrick, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2019
• Powers is now using a left ventricular assist device (LAVD), which helps pump blood from her left ventricle to the rest of her body.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 2 Feb. 2022
• Those with severe heart failure may consider a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), which helps pump blood throughout the body.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Health, 3 May 2024
• The device, called an LVAD or left ventricular assist device, is often recommended to patients who have reached a stage of advanced heart failure where their hearts can no longer pump enough blood to meet their body's demand.
  — Maria Clark, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• After nearly 300 days in the hospital, Claude became too sick to keep waiting and the doctors proposed a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a mechanical pump that helps his failing heart push blood through his body.
  — Lucas Bogardus, Miami Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
• The transplant program has also successfully implanted three ventricular assist devices -- electromechanical heart pumps -- without complications in the last year, according to OHSU.
  — oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2020
• The biological ventricular assist tissue in a patch, called BioVAT for short, was conceived as a bridge to either transplant, where wait times are long, or to implantation of a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, in end-stage heart failure.
  — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 27 May 2026