Heart Replacement

I Total Artificial Heart.- Implantable Devices.- Ultracompact, High-Performance, Completely Implantable Permanent Electromechanical Total Artificial Heart.- Development of a Totally Implantable Intrathoracic Ventricular Assist Device.- Use of an Improved Linear Motor-Driven Total Artificial Heart in an Acute Animal Experiment.- Artificial Heart with a Highly Efficient and Sensorless Fuzzy-Controlled Energy Converter.- Basic Research.- Over 500 Days’ Survival of a Goat with a Total Artificial Heart with 1/R Control.- Heat Dissipation from Artificial Hearts: Characterizing Tissue Responses and Defining Safe Levels.- Brain and Spinal Cord Lesions with Long-Term Total Artificial Heart Pumping.- An Adaptive Cardiac Output Control for the Total Artificial Heart Using a Self-Tuning Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller.- Acoustical Characteristics of a Moving Actuator Type Total Artificial Heart.- Vortex Blood Pump.- II Heart Transplantation.- III Biomaterials.- Blood Compatibility.- Calcification and Thrombus Formation on Polymer Surfaces of an Artificial Heart.- Surface Modification Techniques for the Artificial Heart.- Durability of Endothelial Cell Monolayers Inside a Beating Cardiac Prosthesis.- Evaluation of a Newly Developed, Heparin-Bonded Artificial Lung in Chronic Animal Experiments.- Device-Related Problems.- Alumina Ceramic and Polyethylene: Materials for the Double Pivot Bearing System of an Implantable Centrifugal Ventricular Assist Device.- Highly Blood-Compatible Surface Consisting of a Silicon-Containing Block Copolymer with Supramolecular Structure.- Development of a Fracture and Wear-Resistant Titanium Graphite Composite.- Influence of Microporous Structures on Mural Thrombosis and Endothelialization at Blood-Contacting Surfaces.- IVVentricular Assist Devices.- V Clinical Application.- Clinical Application 1.- International Paediatric Ventricular Assist Device Registry.- The UCLA Experience with Assist Devices as a Bridge to Transplantation in End-Stage Heart Failure.- Medically Unresponsive Pulmonary Hypertension: Heterotopic Cardiac Transplant Versus Mechanical Support.- First Experience of Novacor Implant at the Heart Institute of Japan.- Application of Wearable Novacor Left Ventricular Assist System for Patients with End-Stage Cardiomyopathy: Osaka Experience.- Clinical Application 2.- Ventricular Circulatory Support with the Abiomed System as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Bridging to Cardiac Transplantation with the Thoratec Ventricular Assist Device in Australia.- Patient Selection for Successful Outcome with the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation.- Bridge for Transplantation with the Symbion and Cardiowest Total Artificial Heart: The Pitie Experience.- Muscle Pumps.- The Effect of Cardiomyoplasty on Coronary Blood Flow and Diastolic Dimension of the Left Ventricle.- What Is the Ideal Frequency for Skeletal Muscle Ventricle Electrical Stimulation?.- Muscle Blood Pump Driven by Roller Screw Linear Actuator.- Circulatory Assistance Using Linear Skeletal Muscle Ventricle.- VI Pathophysiology.- VII Engineering.- VIII New Approaches.- IX From Pulsatile to Nonpulsatile.- X Posters.- Scientific Exhibitions.- Key Word Index.