PMID: 19141934Jan 15, 2009Paper

Implantable axialflow blood pump for left ventricular support

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation
Alexandrina UntaroiuPaul E Allaire

Abstract

Artificial blood pumps, either ventricular assist devices (VADs) or total artificial hearts, are currently employed for bridge to recovery, bridge to transplant, and destination therapy situations. The clinical effectiveness of VADs has been demonstrated; however, all of the currently available pumps have a limited life because of either the damage they cause to blood or their limited mechanical design life. A magnetically suspended rotary blood pump offers the potential to meet the requirements of both extending design life and causing negligible blood damage due to superior hemodynamics. Therefore, over the last few years, efforts of an interdisciplinary research team at University of Virginia have been concentrated on the design and development of a fully implantable axial flow VAD with a magnetically levitated impeller (LEV-VAD). This paper details the second generation developmental prototype (LEV-VAD2 design configuration) and includes a complete CFD analysis of device performance. Based on encouraging results of the first design stage, including a good agreement between the CFD performance estimations and the experimental measurements, a second design phase was initiated in an attempt to enhance device flow performance a...Continue Reading

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