Development of a flexible inflow cannula with titanium inflow tip for the NEDO biventricular assist device

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 381-386

  Watanabe, Kuniyoshi ^a   Asai, Toshimasa ^a   Ichikawa, Seiji ^b   Motomura, Tadashi ^a   Hata, Atsushi ^a   Ito, Seiichi ^a   Shinohara, Toshiyuki ^c   Tsujimura, Shinichi ^a   Oestmann, Daniel J ^a   Nosé, Yukihiko ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Miwatec Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TITANIUM;

CANNULA; INFLOW TIPS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

TITANIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PUMP; CANNULA; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRAIN; FLEXIBLE INFLOW CANNULA; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; IMPLANT; INTIMA; LONG TERM CARE; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; PSEUDONEOINTIMA; STENOSIS; SUCKING; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VENTRICLE DRAINAGE;

EID: 3142779377     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MAT.0000132555.85820.8E     Document Type: Article

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