Heart Replacement

Pathophysiology.- Development of an Implantable Total Artificial Heart: Initial Animal Experiments.- V Clinical Use of Devices.- Clinical Use of Mechanical Cardiac Assist Devices.- Clinical Use of Cardiac Assist Devices.- Clinical Applications and Problems of Pneumatic Pulsatile Ventricular Assist Devices.- Clinical Experience with Percutaneous Left Ventricular Support Using Transseptal Left Atrial-Femoral Artery Bypass.- New Compact Integrated Cardiopulmonary Bypass Unit (CICU) for Percutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support.- Development and Intermediate Results of a New Short Durable Balloon for Intraaortic Balloon Pumping.- Cardiac Functions in Long-Term Survivors of Mechanical Circulatory Support.- Analysis of Complications Affecting Survival After Employment of Ventricular Assist System (VAS) Using Pneumatic and Centrifugal Pumps.- Antithrombogenic Regimen for Clinical Use of Pneumatic Ventricular Assist Device.- Quantitative Detection of Regional Right Ventricular Contraction Abnormalities During Left Ventricular Assistance.- Effect of Left Ventricular Assistance on Ventricular/Arterial Coupling and Efficiency of Energy Transfer from Pressure-Volume Area to External Mechanical Work of the Right Ventricle.- VI New Approaches.- Toward an Implantable Axial Intra-Cardiac Blood Pump: The Valvo-Pump.- Development of a Miniature Intraventricular Axial Flow Blood Pump as a Fully Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Device for Bridge Use.- An Electrically-Driven Rotary Blood Pump Based on the Wankel Engine.- Development of a Pulsatile Total Artificial Heart Using a Single Continuous Flow Pump: Development of the Third Model.- Study of a Ferrofluidic Actuator for an Implantable Artificial Heart.- Magnetically Actuated Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD): Acute Animal Test Results.- Development of a Seal-Less Motor-Driven Centrifugal Blood Pump (Baylor Gyro Pump).- Recent Development of Centrifugal Blood Pump with a Magnetically Suspended Impeller.- Development of Straight Path Centrifugal Pump.- Pulmonary Function in Nonpulsatile Pulmonary Circulation with a Centrifugal Pump.- Toward a Nonpulsatile Totally Implantable Artificial Heart.- Functional Evaluation of Dynamic Cardiomyoplasty in Chronic Heart Failure Model.- Muscle-Powered Blood Pump Driven by Linear Muscle Actuator: System Development and Performance.- Dual Chamber Skeletal Muscle Powered Pump: Performance at Low Filling Pressure.- Trans-Mitral Ventricular Uptake for Temporary Left Ventricular Support Without Blood Stagnation.- Low-Heparinized Left or Biventrucular Bypass with Oxygenation: Possibility of an Alternative Cardiopulmonary Support in Lung Transplantation.- Reciprocal of the Peripheral Vascular Resistance (1/R) Control Method for the Total Artificial Heart.- New Artificial Heart Control Method from the Neurophysiological Point of View.- Abdominally-Placed Implantable Left Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) with a Continuous Monitoring System.- In Vitro Development of Automatic Control for the Moving-Actuator Type Total Artificial Heart (TAH).- VII Heart Transplantation.- Organization and Coordination of Organ Transplantation in the United States.- Orthotopic Heart Transplantation: Management and Results.- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) Circulatory Support as a Bridge to Pediatric Heart Transplantation.- Non-Invasive Monitoring for Cardiac Rejection Using Impedance Plethysmograms.- Scientific Exhibition.- Key Word Index.