A hydraulic figure-of-merit for heart va
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Viggers, Robert F. ;Robel, Stephen B. ;Sauvage, Lester R.
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Article
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1967
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The pressure losses in the currently available prostheses are too high. We believe ail excellent way to focus designers' att,ention upon this fact is to rank the various designs according to their hydraulic efficiency. The proposal of this paper is for pressure drop vs. velocity data (pulsatile flow