Implantable left ventricular assist devices (LVAD s) became the therapy of choice in treating
end‐stage heart failure. Although survival improved substantially and is similar in currently …

Left ventricular assist devices are routinely used to treat patients with advanced heart failure
as a bridge to transplant or a destination therapy. However, non-physiological shear stress …

A major part of developing rotary blood pumps requires the optimization of hemolytic
properties of the entire pump. Application of a suited computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …

A low rate of hemolysis is an important factor for the development of a rotary blood pump. It
is, however, difficult to identify the areas where hemolysis occurs. Computational fluid …

Objective: The hydraulic properties of implantable rotary blood pumps (RBPs) determine
their interaction with the cardiovascular system. A systematic comparison in this regard has …

Centrifugal blood pumps are of substantial importance for intraoperative extracorporeal
circulation and for temporary cardiac assist. Their development and improvement raises …

Ventricular assist devices (VADs) have already helped many patients with heart failure but
have the potential to assist more patients if current problems with blood damage (hemolysis …

The CentriMag centrifugal blood pump is a newly developed ventricular assist device based
on magnetically levitated bearingless rotor technology. A combined computational and …

Progress in the field of prosthetic cardiovascular devices has significantly contributed to the
rapid advancements in cardiac therapy during the last four decades. The concept of …

There are few established engineering guidelines aimed at reducing hemolysis for the
design of centrifugal blood pumps. In this study, a fluid dynamic approach was applied to …