A Compliant Model of the Ventricular Apex to Study Suction in Ventricular Assist Devices

2023
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Rocchi M, Fresiello L, Meyns B, Jacobs S, Gross C, Pauls JP, Graefe R, Stecka A, Kozarski M, Zieliński K. ASAIO J DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0000000000001370

Abstract: 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 related suction events. T

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