The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 3 , Pages 529-536 , September 2010

Cavopulmonary assist for the univentricular Fontan circulation: von Kármán viscous impeller pump

Presented at the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Massachusetts, May 6–13, 2009.

  • Mark D. Rodefeld, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine and James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Ind
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Mark D. Rodefeld, MD, Associate Professor of Surgery, Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Emerson Hall 215, 545 Barnhill Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46202.
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  • Brandon Coats, MS

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind
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  • Travis Fisher, MS

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind
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  • Guruprasad A. Giridharan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Bioengineering, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky
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  • Jun Chen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind
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  • John W. Brown, MD

      Affiliations

    • Section of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine and James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, Ind
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  • Steven H. Frankel, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind

Received 8 May 2009 ,Revised 19 November 2009 ,Accepted 10 April 2010.

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 This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grant HL080089 (MDR); and Collaboration in Bioengineering Grant (MDR, SHF) and Research Support Funds Grant (MDR), Indiana University Purdue University, Indianapolis.

 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(10)00552-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.04.037

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 140, Issue 3 , Pages 529-536 , September 2010

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