Each year, thousands of cardiac patients await healthy donor hearts for transplantation. Due
to the current shortage of donor hearts (approximately 2300 per year), these patients often …

This book contains pioneering methods in biomimetics. Introducing the principles of using
biology to inspire designs as well as biological mechanisms as models for technology, this …

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) provide mechanical circulatory support to offload the work
of one or both ventricles during heart failure. They are used in the clinical setting as …

The CentriMag centrifugal blood pump is a newly developed ventricular assist device based
on magnetically levitated bearingless rotor technology. A combined computational and …

An ultrasound‐based molecular imaging technique capable of detecting endothelial cell
markers of inflammation may allow early, non‐invasive assessment of vascular disease …

In this study, the flow features and device‐associated blood trauma in 4 clinical ventricular
assist devices (VADs; 2 implantable axial VADs, 1 implantable centrifugal VAD, and 1 …

Abstract The Levitronix UltraMag blood pump is a next generation, magnetically suspended
centrifugal pump and is designed to provide circulatory support for pediatric and adult …

Left ventricular assist devices are routinely used to treat patients with advanced heart failure
as a bridge to transplant or a destination therapy. However, non-physiological shear stress …

(1) Background: Thrombosis is the main complication in patients supported with ventricular
assist devices (VAD). Models that accurately predict the risk of thrombus formation in VADs …

A fuzzy logic controller for a rotary, turbodynamic left ventricular assist system was
developed to optimize the delivery of blood flow without inducing suction in the ventricle …