Rotor for a transventricular blood pump.

Abstract

that presented the best performance were the rotor with two blades of constant pitch arranged each other at 180º. Suggesting that, for this device: (I) the higher the blade pitch, the higher the pressure load, the lower flow rate, and increases shear stress; (II) a variable pitch decrease the pump efficiency and (III) a non-continuous blade decreases significantly the pump's hydrodynamic performance and decreases the shear stress. At this speed, the maximum manometric head was of 126 mmHg and a maximum flow rate of 4.5 L/min. It is expected to have a low normalized index of hemolysis (NIH).