What is the ideal off-test trial for continuous-flow ventricular-assist- device explantation? Intracircuit back-flow analysis in a mock circulation model

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 70-73

  Ando, Masahiko ^a,b   Nishimura, Takashi ^b   Takewa, Yoshiaki ^a   Ogawa, Daisuke ^e   Yamazaki, Kenji ^d   Kashiwa, Koichi ^c   Kyo, Shunei ^b   Ono, Minoru ^b   Taenaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tatsumi, Eisuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Sun Medical Technology Research Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bridge to recovery; Left ventricular assist device; Mock circulation model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLANT; FLOW KINETICS; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART CYCLE; HEART PERFUSION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART WORK; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; PULSE RATE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HYDRODYNAMICS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 79955869935     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-010-0543-7     Document Type: Article

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