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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-1-13
pubmed:abstractText
A centrifugal blood pump with a double pivot impeller and an eccentric inlet port is being developed as an implantable artificial heart by the Baylor College of Medicine and Miwatec Co. Ltd. Flow visualization measurements were conducted to compare the flow around the pivot for two impeller operational modes: the top and the bottom contact modes. In the top contact mode, one-way flow in the pivot gap due to the eccentric vortex was observed, and sufficient wall shear rate to prevent thrombus formation was attained around the bottom pivot for over 1,400 rpm. Computational fluid dynamic analyses confirmed that the causes of the eccentric vortex were the inlet eccentricity and the pressure imbalance in the volute.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0160-564X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
30
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
70-3
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
The pivot wash in two impeller modes for the Baylor/Miwatec centrifugal blood pump.
pubmed:affiliation
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. yamane.t@aist.go.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article