The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 142, Issue 6 , Pages 1545-1551 , December 2011

A novel cardioport for beating-heart, image-guided intracardiac surgery

  • Nikolay V. Vasilyev, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Nikolay V. Vasilyev, MD, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
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  • Mitsuhiro Kawata, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Christopher M. DiBiasio, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass
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  • Keith V. Durand, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass
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  • Jonathan Hopkins, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass
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  • Zachary J. Traina, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass
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  • Alexander H. Slocum, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass
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  • Pedro J. del Nido, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass

Received 29 April 2011 ,Revised 20 June 2011 ,Accepted 11 July 2011.

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 This work was supported by the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology Award No. 07-026 (to P.J.D.N.), National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Award No. 5R01HL073647 (to P.J.D.N.), and Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center Award (to P.J.D.N., N.V.V.).

 Disclosures: The equipment and technology used in the study were purchased using academic funds. The authors had full control of the design of the study, methods used, outcome measurements, analysis of data, and production of the written report.

PII: S0022-5223(11)00776-8

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.07.041

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 142, Issue 6 , Pages 1545-1551 , December 2011

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