期刊
JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL ORGANS
卷 13, 期 1, 页码 17-23出版社
SPRINGER TOKYO
DOI: 10.1007/s10047-010-0490-3
关键词
Electrohydraulic total artificial heart; Endurance testing; Mechanical heart valve; Cavitation pits
Our group has developed an electrohydraulic total artificial heart (EHTAH) with two diaphragm-type blood pumps. Cavitation in a mechanical heart valve (MHV) causes valve surface damage. The objective of this study was to investigate the possibility of estimating the MHV cavitation intensity using the slope of the driving pressure just before valve closure in this artificial heart. Twenty-five and twenty-three-millimeter Medtronic Hall valves were mounted at the inlet and outlet ports, respectively, of both pumps. The EHTAH was connected to the experimental endurance tester developed by our group, and tested under physiological pressure conditions. Cavitation pits could be seen on the inlet valve surface and on the outlet valve surface of the right and left blood pumps. The pits on the inlet valves were more severe than those on the outlet valves in both blood pumps, and the cavitation pits on the inlet valve of the left blood pump were more severe than those on the inlet valve of the right blood pump. The longer the pump running time, the more severe the cavitation pits on the valve surfaces. Cavitation pits were concentrated near the contact area with the valve stop. The major cause of these pits was the squeeze flow between the leaflet and valve stop.
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