This research presents an innovative design approach for the development of high efficiency
Ventricular assist device that can be used for long-term support a heart failure patient …

Heart failure is among the most widespread diseases globally. With the rapid rise in the
number of affected individuals and the significant disparity between organ demand and …

Artificial assist devices offer a promising treatment option for patients with congestive heart
failure, especially when the patient is not eligible for heart transplantation. In order to …

We are developing a universal, advanced ventricular assist device (AVAD) with automatic
pressure regulation suitable for both left and right ventricular support. The primary goal of …

To finalize the design of the next generation of the HeartQuest left ventricular assist device, a
suitable impeller had to be designed and tested. The new prototype was based on …

In the development of a ventricular assist device, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
analysis is an efficient tool to obtain the best design before making the final prototype. In this …

The continuous flow ventricular assist device (VAD) is a miniature centrifugal pump, fully
suspended by magnetic bearings, which is being developed for implantation in humans. The …

Millions of patients, from infants to adults, are diagnosed with congestive heart failure each
year all over the world. A limited number of donor hearts available for these patients results …

A computational fluid dynamics study of blood flow in the continuous flow ventricular assist
device, Prototype No. 3 (CFVAD3), which consists of a 4 blade shrouded impeller fully …

The present study was aimed to reveal the possible interactions between the left ventricular
assist pump and the blood. The study presented in here adopted the computational fluid …