Abstract
A 100-C3-size roller screw electric total artificial heart has been implanted in 10 animals. Four of those animals survived in excess of 100 days, with one animal living 205 days. The 205 day animal, Agnes, had a preoperative weight of 103 kg and gained 73 kgs over the 205 day implant duration. The calf was under automatic electronic control the entire duration of the experiment, and tolerated weekly exercise very well. These experiments indicate that electric motor-driven total artificial hearts offer a viable alternative to the larger more cumbersome pneumatic type total artificial hearts. Comparable survival times with pneumatic and electric devices are now achievable.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology |
| Publisher | Publ by IEEE |
| Pages | 2087-2089 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Edition | pt 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0780302168 |
| State | Published - Dec 1 1991 |
| Event | Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Orlando, FL, USA Duration: Oct 31 1991 → Nov 3 1991 |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology |
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| Number | pt 5 |
| Volume | 13 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0589-1019 |
Other
| Other | Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society |
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| City | Orlando, FL, USA |
| Period | 10/31/91 → 11/3/91 |
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All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Signal Processing
- Biomedical Engineering
- Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
- Health Informatics
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Rosenberg, G., Pierce, W. S., Snyder, A. J., Weiss, W. J., & Lamson, T. (1991). The Pennsylvania State University roller screw electric total artificial heart: 205 days survival in the calf. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (pt 5 ed., pp. 2087-2089). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Engineering in Medicine and Biology; Vol. 13, No. pt 5). Publ by IEEE.