THE ROLE OF VIRTUAL PATIENTS IN ECMO THERAPY: FROM HIGH-RESOLUTION HEMODYNAMICS TO IN-VIVO BLOOD DAMAGE

M. Neidlin

RWTH Aachen University, Germany

INVESTIGATION OF HEMOLYSIS AND THROMBOLYSIS RISK IN CARDIOHELP AND ROTAFLOW CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS

L. N Rossato^1,2, S. Kumar¹, A. Rouhollahi¹, S. P. Keller³, F. R. Nezami¹

¹Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States of America; ²ETH Zurich, Switzerland; ³Johns Hopkins University, United States of America

COMPUTATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF HEMODIALYSIS CATHETERS CLINICAL PERFORMANCE USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS

E. Torta¹, D. Gallo¹, T. Clark², U. Morbiducci¹, G. De Nisco¹

¹PolitoBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ²University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

DIGITAL PREDICTION OF AORTIC ANNULOPLASTY: HEMODYNAMIC ASSESSMENT ON EX-VIVO PORCINE AORTIC ROOTS

M. Colombo¹, L. Bontempi¹, J. H Jedrzejczyk², T. D Jeppesen², M. Zattoni¹, S. Ringgaard^2,3, W. Y Kim^2,4, L. L Benhassen^2,5, P. Johansen^2,6

¹Dep. Mechanical and Production engineering, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark; ²Dep. Clinical Medicine, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark; ³Magnetic Resonance Research Center, Aarhus Universitet Hospital, Denmark; ⁴Dep. Cardiology, Aarhus Universitet Hospital, Denmark; ⁵Dep. Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Aarhus Universitet Hospital, Denmark; ⁶Dep. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

ROBUST HYDROGEL-SOLID INTERFACES VIA ION-ASSISTED PLASMA POLYMERIZATION FOR STENT BIOFUNCTIONALIZATION

L. Mamizadeh Janghour¹, S. Jiang², D. Ashok^1,2, M. Sun³, Y. Xia⁴, G. Shineh¹, S. Naficy⁵, M. Bilek^1,6, A. Zhao³, M. Lord⁷, A. Waterhouse², B. Akhavan^1,4,6

¹The University of Sydney, Australia; ²Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Medical Science, The University of Sydney, Australia; ³School of Materials Science & Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China; ⁴School of Engineering, Newcastle University, Australia; ⁵School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia; ⁶School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Australia; ⁷School of Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, New South Wales University, Australia

FROM BENCH TESTING TO VIRTUAL IMPLANTATION: AN IN-SILICO EVALUATION OF PLLA AND NITI BRAIDED STENTS

A. Lucchetti¹, L. G. Juhl¹, A. Corti², A. Zaccaria³, T. Gries¹, C. Chiastra⁴, T. J. Vaughan⁵, D. Carbonaro⁴

¹Institut für Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University, RWTH Aachen University, Germany; ²Department of Electronics, Informatics and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ³Consorzio Intellimech, Italy; ⁴PoliToBIOMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; ⁵Biomechanics Research Centre (BMEC), School of Engineering, University of Galway, Ireland

A ROBUST REGULATORY CONTROLLER FOR EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION (ECMO) SYSTEMS TO MITIGATE VARIABILITY IN OXYGEN AND CARBON DIOXIDE DISSOCIATION DYNAMICS

A. Ramezani, F. Rikhtegar Nezami

Brigham and Women’s Hospital, United States of America