Heart Replacement: Artificial Heart 7 - The 7th International Symposium on Artificial Heart and Assist Devices

 Content: Mechanical circulatory support in the 21st century; long-term \"in vivo\" testing of the National Cardiovascular Centre electrohydraulic total artificial heart; ultracompact, completely implantable electro-mechanical permanent total artificial heart; progress in the development of the undulation pump total artificial heart; analytical study of 1/R control method on total artificial heart; heart replacement in the 21st century; pre- and post-heart transplant management in end-stage cardiac failure patients - Osaka experience; initial experience of heart transplantation at National Cardiovascular Centre; results after bridging to heart transplantation using paracorporeal and implantable LVAD; first clinical trials of a completely implanted destination therapy ventricular assist system; design of a trial cuff and cannulae for undulation pump total artificial heart; oxygen-demand-based physiological control of total artificial heart; the vagal nerve activity shows the new control method of an artificial heart; development of implantable centrifugal right ventricular assist device, combined use with LVAD as an alternative to total artificial heart; an eccentric roller type total artificial heart; changes of heart rate variability during long-term left ventricular assist in normal goats; experimental heterotopic allotransplantation of the heart; quantification of pulsatility of the arterial blood pressure waveform during left ventricular non-pulsatile assistance - a brief review and a recent study series; novel method to evaluate traumatic feature of centrifugal pumps - measurement of beta-TB production \"in vitro\"; pathophysiological aspect of an implantable ventricular assist device with short stroke and high frequency; phospholipid polymer biomaterials for making ventricular assist devices; a novel nonthrombogenic mechanism - HEMA-St block copolymer requires platelet ATP consumption to prevent platelet adhesion; surface modification with polymeric micelle and its characterizations; closure of pericardium using synthetic bioadsorbable polymers; fate of \"latissimus dorsi\" muscle flap in cardiomyoplasty and availability of omental flap; extension of a durability of jellyfish valve for long-term use in artificial hearts; sensor-less estimation of pressure head and flow of a continuous-flow artificial heart; magnetic bearing techniques to develop a magnetically suspended centrifugal blood pump; development of a implantable centrifugal blood pump; flow visualization study to obtain suitable design criteria of a centrifugal blood pump; design enhancement for antithrombogenicity of a monopivot magnetic suspension blood pump; the miniature undulation pump for the study of renal circulation; flow transformed pulsatile total artificial heart using axial flow blood pump; prediction of haemolysis in rotary blood pumps with computational fluid dynamics analysis; computational fluid dynamic analysis for centrifugal blood pumps; computer simulation of the entire hear