Development of Terumo implantable left ventricular assist system (T-ILVAS) with a magnetically suspended centrifugal pump

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-7

  Nojiri, Chisato ^a   Kijima, Toshihiko ^a   Maekawa, Jun ^a   Horiuchi, Kunio ^a   Kido, Takayuki ^a   Sugiyama, Tomoko ^a   Mori, Takehisa ^a   Sugiura, Naoya ^a   Asada, Takehiko ^a   Ozaki, Takayoshi ^b   Suzuki, Minoru ^b   Akamatsu, Teruaki ^c   Akutsu, Tetsuzo ^a  

^a Terumo Research Institute   (Japan)

^b NTN Corporation   (Japan)

^c SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Centrifugal pump; Implantable left ventricular assist system; Magnetic bearing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002515838     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01235517     Document Type: Article

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