An innovative solution to a failing heart | Heart Foundation
Research is the bedrock for our work at the Heart Foundation. It helps create the future we want to see: an Australia free of heart disease. Thanks to donors, we’re able to fund researcher Dr Thanh Nho Do, as he develops a better treatment option for people living with heart failure. Only a limited number of heart failure patients have access to specialised life-support machines or a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). These machines keep them alive.
Dr Do and his team are working on a soft robotic device to improve how a failing heart pumps blood. Their aim is to make it less bulky and more portable than the LVAD – and more cost-effective. This will make it easier for more people around Australia to access.
This exciting research could give people waiting for a heart transplant more time and help improve their quality of life.
And it’s because of you that ground-breaking research like Dr Do’s is possible. Will you help advance cardiovascular research and give the gift of life today?
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