Mechanical support of pulmonary blood flow as a strategy to support the Norwood circulation-lumped parameter model study.

Syed Murfad PeerCanberk YildirimManan DesaiKarthik V Ramakrishnan Pranava SinhaRichard JonasCan YerebakanKerem Pekkan

Published in: European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (2022)

This study demonstrates that an assisted pulmonary flow-based Norwood circulation has higher systemic flow and oxygen delivery compared to a standard Norwood Blalock-Taussig shunt circulation.

Keyphrases

blood flow
pulmonary hypertension
pulmonary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension