Heart Replacement

Surface Modifications of Polymeric Materials for Application in Artificial Heart and Circulatory Assist Devices.- In Vitro Evaluation of Six Different Segmented Polyurethanes and HEMA/St Block Copolymer Using Epifluorescent Video Microscopy.- Role of Adsorbed Fibronectin and Vitronectin in Adhesion and Spreading Behavior of Bovine Aortic Endothelial Cells on Polyamine Graft Copolymer Surfaces.- Nonthrombogenic Modification on Blood-Contacting Surfaces of Ventricular Assist Device.- Microporous Polyurethane Inhibits Critical Mural Thrombosis and Enhances Endothelialization at Blood-Contacting Surface.- Changes in Total Artificial Heart Driving Diaphragms After Long-Term Pumping.- Low Hemolytic Intraventricular Axial Flow Blood Pump Integrated with Totally Implantable Bearing Purge System.- Development of an Implantable Centrifugal Ventricular Assist Device (CVAD).- Development of Centrifugal Pumps for Long-Term Circulatory Support.- Implantable Artificial Heart Systems.- Development of an Electrohydraulic Total Artificial Heart System.- The Baylor Electromechanical Total Artificial Heart.- Orthotopic Implantation of the Tether-Free Moving-Actuator Type Total Artificial Heart in Sheep.- Second Type of Linear Motor-Driven Total Artificial Heart.- Flow-Transformed Pulsatile Total Artificial Heart (FTPTAH) with No Electrical Switching Valve.- Evolution of Cardiac Assist from Intermediate In-Hospital Support of Chronic Outpatient Care.- Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Transplantation at Henri Mondor Hospital.- Evolution of an Implantable, Portable, Electrically Actuated Left Ventricular Assist Device.- Experience with a Wearable Electric Left Ventricular Assist System.- Mechanical Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Transplantation: Berlin Experience in 154 Patients.- Mechanical Ventricular Support in Postcardiotomy Cardiac Failure.- Different Applications of Circulatory Support After Surgery for Valvular and for Ischemic Heart Diseases.- Post-Cardiotomy Assist; Pneumatic VAD or PCPS-VAB?.- Improvement of Percutaneous Veno-Arterial Bypass System Toward Longer and More Physiological Assist.- Early Results of Experimental Clinical Usage of Polish Ventricle Assist Device — POLVAD-II.- New Implantable Echocardiography Probe (IEP) — Development and Clinical Use for Monitoring Cardiac Function Under Assisted Circulation After Open Heart Surgery.- Artificial Heart and Assist Devices: New Developments at the Helmholtz Institute.- Free Impeller: A New Antithrombogenic and Atraumatic Design for Long-Term Centrifugal Ventricular Assist Device.- In Vitro and Preliminary In Vivo Assessment of a New Centrifugal Pump: the Magnetically Suspended Centrifugal Pump.- Relationship Between Hemolysis and Design of an Axial Flow Pump.- Experimental Study of an Intravenous Axial Flow Pump for Right Ventricular Assist.- In Vitro Hemolysis Test Method for Developing an Axial Flow Ventricular Assist Device.- Phase 1 Ex Vivo Studies on the Baylor/NASA Axial Flow Ventricular Assist Device.- Application of the Latissimus Dorsi Muscle as a Biological Energy Source for Circulatory Assist Devices.- Energy Dissipation of Diaphragms for a Pneumatically Driven Artificial Heart.- Power Acquisition from Preconditioned Muscle by Low Power/High Stroke Energy Converter in Artificial Heart Drive.- The Mechanical Auxiliary Ventricle Demonstrates Biocompatibility in up to 25 Months of Intermittent Cardiac Support in Calves.- A New Method for the Chronic Evaluation of the Microcirculation During Artificial Heart Pumping.- Less Invasive Method for Estimating Emax UnderCardiac Assistance — Angular Frequency Method.- Automatic Control Algorithm for Cardiac Output Regulation of the Total Artificial Heart (TAH).- Implantable Controller with Fault Tolerance for the Moving-Actuator Total Artificial Heart (TAH): Use of a Dual Board.- 1/f Fluctuation in Total Artificial Heart.- Characteristics of Sympathetic Nerve Activity During Nonpulsatile Circulation.- Microcirculation of Major Organs: Pulsatile vs Nonpulsatile Cardiac Assist.- Fractal Dimension Analysis of Chaos in Hemodynamics with Artificial Heart.- Right Heart Function During Left Ventricular Assistance in a Open-Chest Porcine Model of Acute Right Heart Failure.- Fluid Dynamic Investigation of Mechanical Blood Hemolysis.- Left Ventricular Assist with a Pulsatile Impeller Pump.- Investigation of a Ventricular Assist Device for Serial Production.- In Vitro Comparison Study of POLTAH-II Mounted with Original, Mechanical Delrin Disc Valve, Polyurethane Trileafiet Valve, and Biological Cryo- or Chemically Preserved Valve.- Anatomical Fitting Simulators (AFS) for Totally Implantable Artificial Heart Design.- Laser Doppler Velocimetry of the Spiral Vortex Ventricular Assist Device.- Development of Linear Oscillatory Actuator for Artificial Heart.- A Percutaneously Accessible Pulsatile Left Ventricular Assist Device.- Bearing Seizure in a Rotational Blood Pump: Mechanism and Potential Solutions.- Experimental Trial of Long-Term Heart and Lung Replacement.- New Approach to Circulatory Assist: Left Heart Bypass (LHB) and Synchronized Coronary Sinus Retroperfusion (SCSR).- Current Status of Cardiac Transplantation.- Possibility of Circulatory Assist Using Xenograft: Immunological Assessment.- Panel Discussion.- Scientific Exhibitions.- Key Word Index.