An implantable centrifugal blood pump with a recirculating purge system (Cool-Seal System)

Artificial Organs

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 466-474

  Yamazaki, Kenji ^c   Litwak, Philip ^d   Tagusari, Osamu ^d   Mori, Toshio ^a   Kono, Kunihisa ^d   Kameneva, Marina ^d   Watach, Mary ^d   Gordon, Lisa ^d   Miyagishima, Masayuki ^d   Tomioka, Jun ^b   Umezu, Mitsuo ^b   Outa, Eisuke ^b   Antaki, James F ^d   Kormos, Robert L ^d   Koyanagi, Hitoshi ^c   Griffith, Bartley P ^d  

^a Sun Med Technol Res Corporation   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrifugal blood pump; Left ventricular assist system.

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; BRUSHLESS DC MOTORS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES; PROTEINS; SEALS; STATORS; TITANIUM ALLOYS;

BLOOD COMPATIBILITY; BRUSHLESS DC-MOTORS; CENTRIFUGAL BLOOD PUMP; CONTACTING SURFACES; DIAMOND LIKE CARBON; IN-VIVO EXPERIMENTS; LEAVE VENTRICULAR ASSIST SYSTEM.; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST SYSTEMS; PURGE SYSTEMS; TITANIUM (ALLOYS);

PUMPS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD PUMP; DEVICE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FLOW RATE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 14444267313     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.1998.06156.x     Document Type: Article

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