From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges J. Med. Devices. 2017;11(4):040801-040801-11. doi:10.1115/1.4037258 Figure Legend: A schematic illustration of the different categories of VADs

From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges J. Med. Devices. 2017;11(4):040801-040801-11. doi:10.1115/1.4037258 Figure Legend: A schematic illustration of different types of pump impellers used in the construction of continuous flow pumps

From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges J. Med. Devices. 2017;11(4):040801-040801-11. doi:10.1115/1.4037258 Figure Legend: Schematic illustration of a catheter-mounted VAD (a) Impella 2.5, CP, 5.0 and Thoratec PHP, (b) Impella LD

From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges Date of download: 10/22/2017 Copyright © ASME. All rights reserved. From: Ventricular Assist Devices: Current State and Challenges J. Med. Devices. 2017;11(4):040801-040801-11. doi:10.1115/1.4037258 Figure Legend: Placement of TandemHeart™ [35], photo courtesy of the Texas Heart Institute website.2 We acknowledge them for providing the photo.