Validating the Concept of Mechanical Circulatory Support with a Rotary Blood Pump in the Inferior Vena Cava in an Ovine Fontan Model
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Ethics Statement
2.2. Circulatory Support
2.3. Animal Model
2.4. Data Analysis and Statistics
3. Results
4. Discussion
Limitations
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
References
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d’Udekem, Y.; Van Puyvelde, J.; Rega, F.; Nix, C.; Barth, S.; Meyns, B. Validating the Concept of Mechanical Circulatory Support with a Rotary Blood Pump in the Inferior Vena Cava in an Ovine Fontan Model. Bioengineering 2024, 11, 594. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11060594
d’Udekem Y, Van Puyvelde J, Rega F, Nix C, Barth S, Meyns B. Validating the Concept of Mechanical Circulatory Support with a Rotary Blood Pump in the Inferior Vena Cava in an Ovine Fontan Model. Bioengineering. 2024; 11(6):594. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11060594
Chicago/Turabian Styled’Udekem, Yves, Joeri Van Puyvelde, Filip Rega, Christoph Nix, Svenja Barth, and Bart Meyns. 2024. "Validating the Concept of Mechanical Circulatory Support with a Rotary Blood Pump in the Inferior Vena Cava in an Ovine Fontan Model" Bioengineering 11, no. 6: 594. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11060594
APA Styled’Udekem, Y., Van Puyvelde, J., Rega, F., Nix, C., Barth, S., & Meyns, B. (2024). Validating the Concept of Mechanical Circulatory Support with a Rotary Blood Pump in the Inferior Vena Cava in an Ovine Fontan Model. Bioengineering, 11(6), 594. https://doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering11060594