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Design and initial testing of a mock human circulatory loop for left ventricular assist device performance testing

Yingjie Liu1, Paul Allaire, Houston Wood

  • 1Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA.

Artificial Organs
|March 25, 2005
PubMed
Summary

A mock circulatory loop was designed to test continuous flow (CF) left ventricular assist devices (LVADs). Initial tests validated its accurate simulation of healthy and pathological cardiovascular states.

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