A small pump driven propeller from Lund helping patients affected by severe heart failure. Already this year, can the technology reach the market.

Oyvind Reitan propeller.

In last week used the Lund University Hospital for the first time the unique pump developed by Oyvind Reitan, cardiologist at the hospital. 

The patient was a 65-year-old man with severe cardiac and renal failure. Doctors brought the pump that drives a propeller in the large body arteries via a catheter in the patient's groin. The propeller drive since blood "downstream" to the bodies had poor blood supply.

- When the propeller starts work lowering the pressure in the heart, which means that it unloaded and can empty more efficiently. As a result of the improved circulation could kidneys drain normally, "says Oyvind Reitan in a statement. The method has been tested earlier in Gothenburg and in England with good results. This time was the effect of expectation. The treatment was supposed to last one day, but half the time was enough.

Oyvind Reitan will soon begin further studies at two hospitals in London. Already this year he expects to pump should be in commercial operation. A hospital in the same size as the Lund University Hospital for the benefit of the technology up to 200 times a year.