What is it about?
The shape of the impeller affects the performance of the pump. Traditional design methods do not work on pumps this small, so experiments must be conducted to measure the performance.
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Why is it important?
Less invasive implant technology is being developed to reduce the need for surgery. Implanting pumps without surgery is novel and important to heart failure patients and their families.
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This page is a summary of: Preliminary design of the internal geometry in a minimally invasive left ventricular assist device under pulsatile-flow conditions, The International Journal of Artificial Organs, February 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0391398817752291.
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