Opening book details…
Can I read A Review of Patents on Implantable Heart-Compression/Assist Devices and Systems on EtoBox?
A Review of Patents on Implantable Heart-Compression/Assist Devices and Systems by Shahinpoor, Mohsen is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is A Review of Patents on Implantable Heart-Compression/Assist Devices and Systems about?
This paper presents and discusses a number of significant seminal patents on implantable heart-assist and compression devises. It further discusses active, electrically controllable and implantable heart compression/assist systems equipped with ionic polymeric artificial muscles. A brief description of the characteristics and modeling of ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) as artificial muscles is also included in this paper. These polymeric artificial muscles can be suitably integrated with or sutured to the myocardium. In particular, they can be sutured to the left ventricle and placed around a failing heart's ischemic muscle tissues and snugly conformed to the size and the shape of the heart muscle to cyclically and synchronously assist the systolic and diastolic activities and functions of a failing heart. These systems will be designed for selectively assisting the ventricles or atria, and in particular the left ventricle of a weak heart to produce enough internal pressure and to pump blood from one or more sides in synchrony with the natural systolic contraction of the ventricle, as well as providing arrhythmia control of the beating heart. The proposed compression heart a
Who reads A Review of Patents on Implantable Heart-Compression/Assist Devices and Systems?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Shahinpoor, Mohsen
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Publishers; Bentham Science; Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. (ISSN 1874-7647)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)