Artificial organs

• Main Author: Miller, Gerald E.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth St, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2006.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Series: Synthesis lectures on biomedical engineering, #4.
• Subjects: Heart, Artificial.; Heart, Mechanical.; Heart valve prosthesis.; Cardiac pacemakers.; Hemodialysis.
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• Item Description: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 29. 2008).; Series from website.
• Physical Description: 1 electronic text (v, 66 p. : ill.) : digital file.; Also available in print.
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• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-66).
• ISBN: 1598290495 (electronic bk.); 9781598290493 (electronic bk.); 1598290487 (paper); 9781598290486 (paper)
• ISSN: 1932-0336
• Access: Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.

The replacement or augmentation of failing human organs with artificial devices and systems has been an important element in health care for several decades. Such devices as kidney dialysis to augment failing kidneys, artificial heart valves to replace failing human valves, cardiac pacemakers to reestablish normal cardiac rhythm, and heart assist devices to augment a weakened human heart have assisted millions of patients in the previous 50 years and offers lifesaving technology for tens of thousands of patients each year. Significant advances in these biomedical technologies have continually occurred during this period, saving numerous lives with cutting edge technologies. Each of these artificial organ systems will be described in detail in separate sections of this lecture.