The optimal performance of the cardiovascular system, as well as the break-down of this
performance with disease, both involve complex biomechanical interactions between the …

Mammalian organs convert dietary nutrients into circulating metabolites and share them to
maintain whole-body metabolic homeostasis. While the concentrations of circulating …

Established as the standard reference on cardiopulmonary bypass, Dr. Gravlee's text is now
in its Third Edition. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary text covers all aspects of …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the possibility to predict
postoperative graft patency in coronary surgery by means of intraoperative transit-time flow …

Commercial time-of-flight (TOF) ultrasonic flowmeters (UFM) are rapidly expanding in the
general industry. Among the different techniques that can be applied to determine the TOF of …

Objectives: A noninvasive continuous cardiac output system (NICO) has been developed
recently. NICO uses a ratio of the change in the end-tidal carbon dioxide partial pressure …

Background: Vascular patency is the key element for high flap survival rates. The purpose of
this study was to assess and compare the blood flow characteristics of deep inferior …

BACKGROUND: We assessed the validity of intraoperative transit time flow measurement
(TTFM) in predicting graft flow abnormalities. METHODS: Intraoperative graft flow …

BACKGROUND: Patent bypass grafts are fundamental to successful coronary artery bypass
grafting. Intraoperative flow measurement through newly constructed grafts is a test of …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The tortuous distal part of the ICA may have an
attenuating effect on pulsatile arterial flow. We investigated local arterial blood flow patterns …