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Questions and Predictions.- I. Counterpulsation.- Introduction: Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping as an Established Clinical Method.- Intra-aortic Balloon Pumping for Assisted Circulation: New Techniques and New Prospects.- Large-volume Counterpulsation.- Optimal Conditions of Biventricular Balloon Pumping During Ventricular Fibrillation in the Experimental Animal.- II. Ventricular Assist Devices.- Introduction: Clinical Reality.- Mechanical Circulatory Support at Henri Mondor Hospital: Indications for the Use of Different Devices.- Use of the Novacor Left Ventricular Assist System as a Bridge to Cardiac Transplantation: First Experience with Long-Term Patients on the Wearable System.- Clinical Results of the HeartMate Implantable Blood Pump.- The Abiomed BVS 5000 for Treatment of Postcardiotomy Cardiogenic Shock.- The Development of Low-Cost Temporary and Permanent Circulatory Assist Devices.- Progress Toward a Completely Implantable left Ventricular Assist Device at the Pennsylvania State University.- III. Nonpulsatile Blood Pumps.- Centrifugal Pumps - Now and the Future.- The Hemopump: Clinical Results and Future Applications.- Considerations in the Development of Mini-Spindle Pump.- New Progress with Impeller Pumps in Taiwan.- IV. Biologic Assistance and Energy Sources.- Skeletal Muscle Ventricles for Biologic Cardiac Assistance.- Chronic Heart Assist System.- V. Total Artifical Heart.- In Vivo Testing of a Clinical-Size Totally Implantable Artifical Heart.- Total Artifical Heart with High-efficiency Motor-Gear Unit.- VI. Cardiac Transplantation.- Heart Transplantation: Current Experience at La Pitié, Paris.- The Efficacy of Calcium Channel Blockers in Pulmonary Reperfusion.- Cardiac Xenotransplantation.- VII. Extracorporeal Respiratory Support.- Extracorporeal Respiratory Support in Acute Respiratory Failure.- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Children.- Intravascular Membrance Oxygenation and Carbon Dioxide Removal with Permissive Hypercapnia - New Concepts in