Abstract
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. and International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation. An artificial placenta (AP) is an arterio-venous extracorporeal life support system that is connected to the fetal circulation via the umbilical vasculature. Previously, we published an article describing a pumpless AP system with a small priming volume. We subsequently developed a parallelized system, hypothesizing that the reduced circuit resistance conveyed by this modification would enable healthy fetal survival time to be prolonged. We conducted experiments using a premature lamb model to test this hypothesis. As a result, the fetal survival period was significantly prolonged (60.4±3.8 vs. 18.2±3.2h, P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | E61-E68 |
Journal | Artificial Organs |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 May 2016 |