Totally implantable artificial hearts and left ventricular assist devices: Selecting impermeable polycarbonate urethane to manufacture ventricles

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-23

  Yang, Mingjing ^a   Zhang, Ze ^a   Hahn, Charles ^b   Laroche, Gaétan ^a   King, Martin W ^a   Guidoin, Robert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Cardiovascular Research Center   (Switzerland)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial heart; Left ventricular assist device; Polycarbonate urethane; Ventricle; Water transmission rate

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CONTACT ANGLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POLYCARBONATES; POLYETHERS; POLYMERIC MEMBRANES; POLYURETHANES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES (LVAD); POLYCARBONATE URETHANES; POLYETHER URETHANES;

IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

ALBUMIN; POLYCARBONATE; POLYETHER; POLYMER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; URETHAN; WATER;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; HEART VENTRICLE; HYDROPHILICITY; MATERIALS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; SURFACE PROPERTY; WATER PERMEABILITY; WATER VAPOR;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART, ARTIFICIAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYURETHANES; URETHANE; WATER;

EID: 0033105689     PISSN: 00219304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4636(1999)48:1<13::AID-JBM4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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