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Comparison of Blood Viscoelasticity in Pediatric and Adult Cardiac Patients
Evidence is accumulating that blood flow patterns in the cardiovascular system and in cardiovascular devices do, in some instances, depend on blood viscoelasticity. Thus, to better understand the challenges to...
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In Vitro Pum** Performance Evaluation of the Ension Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Assist System for Venoarterial and Venovenous ECMO
The purpose of this study is to determine the pum** performance of Revision 7 of the Ension pediatric cardiopulmonary assist system (pCAS) when used with cannulae for venoarterial (VA) or venovenous (VV) ext...
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Numerical Simulation of the Influence of Gravity and Posture on Cardiac Performance
A numerical model of the cardiovascular system was used to quantify the influences on cardiac function of intrathoracic pressure and intravascular and intraventricular hydrostatic pressure, which are fundament...
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Influence of Gravity on Cardiac Performance
Results obtained by the investigators in ground-based experiments and in two parabolic flight series of tests aboard the NASA KC-135 aircraft with a hydraulic simulator of the human systemic circulation have c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Retrieval analyses of U-100 Total Artificial Heart blood-contacting surface
This paper deals with retrieval analyses of the Utah-100 (U-100) total artificial heart (TAH). Thrombus formation, cell adhesion and activation, mineralization, and adsorbed protein layers have been investigat...