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The article about creation of Zelenograd innovative technology center got in the Biomedical engineering society.

27-28th February, 2015 business delegation of Kovai Medical Center and Hospital (KMCH, India) visited OJSC ZITC. KMCH representatives expressed interest in acquiring the first Russian left ventricular assist device Sputnik (LVAD Sputnik) to implant to needy patients in regions of India and neighboring countries.

Recently, a surgery on a patient with severe heart failure was successfully performed in the Omsk region clinical hospital.

Omsk cardiosurgeons saved a patient’s life by implanting an artificial left ventricle into his heart.

To reestablish the normal work of a human heart, cardiostimulators and defibrillators are needed. But mechanical devices, for example, artificial blood-circulation machines, are just as important.

Russian scientists have successfully implanted a rotor pump that replaces the heart’s left ventricular to a calf. The specialists are hoping to establish the production of the device in two years’ time.

Russian scientists have successfully conducted an experiment to implant a new rotor pump that replaces one of the heart’s ventriculars. At this stage, the subjects of the experiment are calves.

First transplantation of Russian LVAD Sputnik was performed in the Moscow hospital