Continuously maintaining positive flow avoids endocardial suction of a rotary blood pump with left ventricular bypass

Artificial Organs

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 606-610

  Akimoto, Takehide ^a,e   Yamazaki, Kenji ^a   Litwak, Philip ^a   Litwak, Kenneth N ^a   Tagusari, Osamu ^b   Mori, Toshio ^c   Antaki, James F ^a   Kameneva, Marina V ^a   Watach, Mary J ^a   Umezu, Mitsuo ^d   Tomioka, Jun ^a   Kormos, Robert L ^a   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^b   Griffith, Bartley P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Sun Med Technol Res Corporation   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugal blood pump; Endocardial suction pump flow volume; Hemodynamics; Left ventricular assist device; Regurgitate flow

Indexed keywords

CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS; HEMODYNAMICS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES;

CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP; ENDOCARDIAL SUCTION-PUMP FLOW VOLUME; FLOW VOLUMES; HAEMODYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FLOWS; PUMP FLOW; PUMP SPEED; REGURGITATE FLOW; ROTARY BLOOD PUMPS; ZERO FLOW;

BLOOD;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIASTOLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE BYPASS; HEMODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUCTION; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0033839775     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.06581.x     Document Type: Article

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