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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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 ree...

Table of Contents:

• Artificial heart valves
• Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology
• Prosthetic heart valves
• Evaluation of prosthetic valves
• Artificial heart and cardiac assist devices
• Cardiac anatomy and pathophysiology
• Heart assist technology
• Evaluation of blood pumps
• Cardiac pacemakers
• Cardiac electrophysiology
• The electrocardiogram
• Cardiac pacemaker
• Pacemaker implantation
• Cardioverter
• Dialysis
• The nephron and mass transfer
• Dialysis procedure and the dialysis system
• History of dialysis
• Dialyzer cartridge reuse
• References.