Abstract: A ventricle unloading device intended to be implanted inside a patient's blood vessel portion through which a blood flow circulates. The device includes: a stator, a rotor arranged around the stator, the rotor having a driving impeller and a impeller engine, the impeller being an unducted impeller aimed at rotating freely within the blood vessel portion, and a static anchoring element displaying a circular part which is configured to extend around the impeller. The circular part of the static anchoring element defines a circulation area intended to contain the entire blood flow circulating through the blood vessel portion, the activation of the rotor is a pulsatile activation, and the activation is synchronized with the patient's heart contraction.
Abstract: A left ventricular cardiac assist pump includes an inlet opening and a discharge opening aligned in an axial direction. The pump includes a casing spaced from a stator and impeller, with at least one connecting spacer connecting the casing and the stator. The impeller is configured to direct the blood towards the casing and the discharge opening, so that blood flows through the pump principally between the casing and the rotor-stator assembly.