Development and long-term in vivo testing of a novel skin-button system for preventing driveline infection of an implantable VAD system

Journal of Artificial Organs

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 371-374

  Mizuno, Toshihide ^a   Nemoto, Yashushi ^a   Tsukiya, Tomonori ^a   Takewa, Yoshiaki ^a   Taenaka, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tatsumi, Eisuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Driveline infection; Porous material; Segmented polyurethane; Skin button

Indexed keywords

POLYURETHAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CATTLE; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICES; DRIVELINE INFECTION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY; IMPLANT; IN VIVO STUDY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LONG TERM CARE; MATERIALS TESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SKIN BUTTON SYSTEM; TISSUE ADHESION; TISSUE GROWTH; VASCULAR ACCESS DEVICE;

ANIMALS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATTLE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; POLYURETHANES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SKIN;

EID: 84855283097     PISSN: 14347229     EISSN: 16190904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-011-0587-3     Document Type: Article

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