Development of a polymer bileaflet valve to realize a low-cost pulsatile blood pump

Artificial Organs

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-83

  Iwasaki, Kiyotaka ^a   Umezu, Mitsuo ^a   Iijima, Kazuo ^a   Inoue, Akira ^a   Imachi, Kou ^b   Ye, Chun Xiu ^c  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Bileaflet valve; Disposable; Low cost; Polymer valve; Pulsatile blood pump

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DURABILITY; FATIGUE TESTING; PUMPS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

BILEAFLET; BILEAFLET VALVE; BLOOD PUMP; DISPOSABLES; HEART FAILURE; LOW-COSTS; POLYMER VALVE; PULSATILE BLOOD PUMP; PULSATILES; VALVE SEATS;

COSTS;

POLYMER;

BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST; FATIGUE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

EID: 0037240742     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2003.07176.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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