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Multilayer Impedance Pump: A Bio-Inspired Valveless Pump with Medical Applications [PDF]
, 2007 This thesis introduces the concept of multilayer impedance pump, a novel pumping mechanism inspired from the embryonic heart structure. The multilayer impedance pump is a composite two-layer fluid-filled elastic tube featuring a thick, gelatin-like ...
Loumes, Laurence
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Microfabricated Anisotropic Myobundles for the Scalable Production of Cardiac Tissue Grafts
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Controlling the anisotropy of cardiac tissue remains an outstanding challenge in the field of cardiac tissue engineering. Here, we introduce an approach to generate anisotropic cardiac myobundles using cell‐adhesive, synthetic, electrospun fibers and stem cell‐derived cardiac fibroblasts.
Maggie E. Jewett +15 more
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Right Ventricular Lead Dysfunction Post LVAD Implantation
Graduate Medical Education Research Journal, 2020 Mentor: Faris Khan Program: Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease Type: Original Research Background: The use of left ventricular assist devices (LVAD), both as bridge to cardiac transplantation as well as destination therapy, has ...
Ahmed Mohamed Abdelhalim-Selim +5 more
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ASAIO Journal, 2019 Neurologic events occur in up to 18% of patients with continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The current form of the LVAD equipment is not suited to serve patients who are impaired by a stroke.
Muslem, Rahat +6 more
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Implantable Ventricular Assist Devices [PDF]
, 2017 Article信州医学雑誌 65(4): 203-210(2017)journal ...
元木, 博彦 +2 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Considerations of valvular heart disease in children with ventricular assist devices
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2023 Ventricular assist devices have become a valuable tool in the treatment of heart failure in children. The use of ventricular assist devices has decreased mortality in children with end-stage heart failure awaiting transplant.
Ming-Sing Si +4 more
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Clinical use of temporary percutaneous left ventricular assist devices
, 2011 Temporary percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (TPLVAD) can be inserted and removed in awake patients. They substitute left ventricular function for a period of up to a few weeks and provide an excellent backup and bridge to recovery or ...
Windecker, Stephan +15 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.The repair and regeneration of brain tissue faces both biological and technical challenges. Injectable bioscaffolds offer new opportunities to stimulate tissue regrowth in the brain by recruiting neural stem cells. Here, the translational issues are reviewed that need to be address to advance this promising new therapeutic approach from the bench to ...
Michel Modo, Alena Kisel
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A Compliant Model of the Ventricular Apex to Study Suction in Ventricular Assist Devices
, 2021 Ventricular suction is a frequent adverse event in patients with a ventricular assist device (VAD). This study presents a suction module (SM) embedded in a hybrid (hydraulic-computational) cardiovascular simulator suitable for the testing of VADs and ...
Anna Stecka +30 more
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