A quantitative comparison of mechanical blood damage parameters in rotary ventricular assist devices: Shear stress, exposure time and hemolysis index

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Fraser, Katharine H ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Taskin, M Ertan ^a   Griffith, Bartley P ^a   Wu, Zhongjun J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

artificial organs; computational fluid dynamics (CFD); hemodynamics; hemolysis; platelet activation; thrombosis; ventricular assist device (VAD); von Willebrand factor (vWf)

Indexed keywords

HEMOLYSIS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; THROMBOSIS; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; CENTRIFUGATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DISEASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HEMODYNAMICS; PLATELETS;

SHEAR STRESS;

VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBOLISM; FLOW RATE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL BLOOD DAMAGE PARAMETER; PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENCE TIME; SHEAR STRESS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; REPRODUCIBILITY; ROTATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; TIME;

BLOOD; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864848430     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4007092     Document Type: Article

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