A 25-year-old female patient received an INCOR® LVAD in November 2006 at the Research Institute of Circulation Pathology in Novosibirsk. The woman had been suffering from idiopathic cardiomyopathy with unknown origin. Ten years prior to the implant the patient had sustained a myocarditis and received a pacemaker.

The patient received an INCOR® LVAD with long inflow cannula through medial implant. Professor Alexander Chernyavski conducted the operation that went without complications. The patient was extubated the day after the operation. She recovered well and was discharged from the hospital just in time to spend Christmas in her home town, about 1000 km away from the hospital.

In January 2007 another patient received an INCOR® LVAD at this clinic.

The 44-year-old patient had been diagnosed with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and had sustained an acute myocardial infarct with LAD occlusion six months prior to the implantation.

A large aneuryism and a huge thrombus had formed in the left ventricle. The patient was further suffering from second-degree mitral and tricuspid valve insufficiency. Professor Chernyavski, who conducted the implantation, first opened the ventricle and peeled a thrombus the size of a tennis ball from the ventricle. He then proceeded with an intraventricular patch plasty (modified Dor) and implanted the inflow cannula through the patch.

The procedure went without complications and the patient recovered well. He was extubated shortly after the implantation and mobilized a week later.