Bifurcating vessel is a characteristic feature of biological systems such as arteries in the
cardiovascular system and pulmonary airways. In cardiovascular system, the bifurcations …

The NeoVAD is a proposed paediatric axial-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD), small
enough to be implanted in infants. The design of the impeller and diffuser blades is …

Patients with end-stage renal disease are usually treated by hemodialysis while waiting for a
kidney transplant. A common device for vascular access is an arteriovenous graft (AVG) …

Despite arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) being the preferred vascular access for haemodialysis,
high primary failure rates (30-70%) and low one-year patency rates (40-70%) hamper their …

In this work, the correlation between the wall shear stress (WSS) and the surface
concentration variation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) on the walls of an idealized …

Late-stage kidney disease patients have to rely on hemodialysis for the maintenance of their
regular lives. Arteriovenous graft (AVG) is one of the commonly used devices for dialysis …

The surrogate management framework (SMF) is an effective approach for derivative-free
optimization of expensive objective functions. The SMF is typically comprised of surrogate …

Abstract Objective Native arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) for hemodialysis are susceptible to
nonmaturation. Adverse features of local blood flow have been implicated in the formation of …

A new theoretical developments of measuring blood flow volume at arteriovenous fistula
(AVF) using a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor is presented in this work. The …

Disturbed flow and the resulting non‐physiological wall shear stress (WSS) at the graft‐vein
anastomosis play an important role in arteriovenous graft (AVG) patency loss. Modifying …