Ventricular Assist Device and Its Necessity for Elderly Population

Introduction

Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs) are considered as lifesaving systems. It is well known that a lack of usual blood flow can develop different heart diseases. These diseases indubitably influence the natural operational activities of the heart and a prime factor for causing death. To be precise, left ventricle (LV) of the cardiac system is the most important chamber which helps in the circulation of blood to the entire body. On the other hand, when usual functionalities of left ventricle are hindered because of aging or weakened cardiac muscles then it is vulnerable to various cardiac diseases primary treatments for these diseases are utilization of ventricular assist devices (VADs), which are basically implanted/set-up inside the patients. To date, researches have produced substantial advancements in development of the VADs including sizes and shapes but still various limitations exist which cause various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and/or infections for the VAD-patients (Arefin, 2015).The cardiovascular system comprises of a pumping-organ, (the heart) blood and blood-vessels which act as a branching network throughout the whole body. The heart is a conically formed pumping organ which serves the total requirement of blood needed by the whole body and it is constructed from the muscle tissues (Bronzino, 2006). Cardiac diseases itself are one of the main factors for human morbidity. Precisely, a significant knowledge is necessary based on the general and diseased hearts to attain suitable results for the general and clinical cardiac analysis (Vadakkumpadan et al., 2010). Utilization of the VADs substantially minimize mortality rate especially for those people who are on the heart transplant waiting record (Garbade, Bittner, Barten, & Mohr, 2011; Moazami, Sun, & Feldman, 2011). Also, people with CVD, weakened heart muscle and/ or elderly people are in need of VAD systems. Although there are various cardiovascular diseases named-valvular heart diseases (Bender, 1992; Morsi, 2011) and coronary artery diseases/coronary heart diseases (Arefin, 2015; Basçiftçi & Incekara, 2011; Channel, 2014), but special attention has been given towards the heart failure diseases and its treatments, especially which are highly suitable for the elderly people.