Term #2,124
partial working mode perfusion
Claim Term
partial working mode perfusion
Reference Case 1
DAR-2
Date Added
9/18/23
Created
9/18/23, 7:46 PM
Modified
9/18/23, 7:46 PM
Full Desc
"Partial Working Mode Perfusion" or "Left Atrial Perfusion" refers to a perfusion procedure, process, method, or mode for an ex vivo heart organ. The procedure involves perfusing a doner heart using a perfusion circuit such that the doner heart pumps a perfusate supplied to the left atrium into the left ventricle and then into the aorta and into coronary arteries. From the aorta, the perfusate passes through one or more compliance and/or resistance components designed to simulate the compliance and resistance the ex vivo heart would experience in the body of a recipient. The perfusate exits the compliance and/or resistance components into a perfusion reservoir. The perfusate also circulates through the coronary arteries and back into the right ventricle of the doner heart, then through the right atrium, the right ventricle, and the pulmonary artery into the perfusion reservoir, and eventually back into the left atrium to repeat the perfusion circuit after having been reoxygenated. The partial working mode perfusion procedure is intended to simulate operation of the left side of the ex vivo heart.