Experimental testing and characterization of a new wireless heart pump

Heart failure is a common cardiovascular disease that is becoming even more prevalent worldwide. The current gold standard treatment for end-stage heart failure is heart transplantation. However, heart transplant therapy is a limited option due to the available number of donors, thus heart pumps emerged to offer circulatory support to patients in the heart transplant waiting list. Although heart pumps’ therapy improves the quality of life and survival rate, a significant number of patients still suffer from blood trauma adverse events such as infections and blood flow-channel obstructions, leading to further surgical interventions.
Therefore, blood trauma remains an unmet challenge in the field of mechanical circulatory suport. The purpose of this study is to experimentally test and characterize through in-vitro test rig different heart pump configurations of a new design. The primary outcome of the project is to select an optimal design that could eventually provide a long-lasting and minimally invasive wireless solution for patients with heart failure. It is believed that in the future, heart failure treatment will rely heavily on improved cardiovascular technologies that provide the reuired physiological function with the least invaiveness while remaining cost-effective. TO BE CON’T

Faculty Supervisor:

Renzo Cecere;Rosaire Mongrain

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Partner:

Yale University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

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