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 RELATED PUBLICATIONS

1) Anstadt MP, Budharaju S, Darner RJ, Schmitt BA, Prochaska LJ, Pothoulakis AJ, Portner PM. Ventricular Actuation Improves Systolic and Diastolic  Myocardial Function in the Small Failing Heart. IN PRESS, Ann Thor Surg ATS, Sept 2009.

2) Anstadt MP, Perez-Tamayo RA, Lowe JE, Anstadt GL: Recent Progress Using the Anstadt Cup for Direct Mechanical Ventricular `Actuation, In ASSISTED CIRCULATION 4, Felix Unger (ed): 394-408, 1995.

3) Anstadt MP, Schulte-Eistrup SA, Motomura T, Soltero E, Takano T, Mikati IA, Nonaka K, Joglar F, Nosé Y. Non-Blood Contacting Biventricular Support Synchronized to the Failing Heart. Ann Thor Surg 2002;73:556-562.

ABSTRACTS

1) Feagins LA, Guill CK, Malone JP, Anstadt GL, Nolan DJ, Anstadt MP:  Myocardial Dynamics During Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation of the Fibrillating Heart.  ASAIO, 2000;46(2), P168.

2) Schulte-Eistrup SA, Nonaka K, Tenderich G, Mirow N, El-Banayosy A, Minami K, Nose Y, Koerfer R and Anstadt MP: RV and LV Dynamics During Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation of the Failing Heart.  ASAIO, 2001;42, No 2.

3) Schulte-Eistrup SA, Tenderich G, Amin Parsa MH, Mirow N, El-Banayosy A, Minami K, Nose Y, Koerfer R and Anstadt MP: Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation Reverses Cardiogenic Shock in Severely Failing Bovine Heart Model.  Presented at the 13th World Congress of the International Society for Artificial Organs, November 2001.

4) Franga DL, Yuan J, El-Ramace A, Caldwell R, Caldwell W, Wicker DL, Ergul A, Anstadt MP: Cellular Apoptosis Does Not Increase with Non-Blood Contacting Biventricular Support.  Presented at the Southeastern Surgical Congress, Savannah, GA, Feb 2003.

5) Franga DL, Wicker DL, White S, Yuan J, El-Ramace A, Caldwell W, Anstadt MP:  Direct Cardiac Compression Attenuates Myocardial Stress and Injury in the Acutely Failing Heart.  J Am Coll of Surg, Vol 197(3), pS25, Sept 2003.

6) Wozniak CJ, Campbell AM, Gargac SM, Darner RJ, Anstadt MP: Non-blood Contacting Biventricular Mechanical Actuation of the Failing Heart. Presented at the AATS/Cleveland Clinic Kaufman Symposium of 21st Century Treatment of Heart Failure, October 2006.

7) Wozniak CJ, Pothoulakis AJ, Gargac SM, Darner RJ, Anstadt MP: Velocity Vector Imaging Characterizes Systolic and Diastolic Augmentation of the Failing Heart During Non-Blood Contacting Ventricular Actuation. JACC, 2007;49(9),supp 1,70A. 

8) Wozniak CJ, Gargac SM, Pothoulakis AJ, Prochaska LJ, Darner RJ, Kerns S, Budharaju S, Anstadt MP: Non-blood contacting Mechanical Support of the Pediatric Failing Heart. Presented at the Third International Conference on Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support Systems and Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Perfusion Annual Meeting, Hershey, PA, May 2007.

9) Wozniak CJ, Pothoulakis AJ, Gargac SM, Darner RJ, Anstadt MP: Utility of Velocity Vector Imaging in the Assessment of Cardiac Function in the Normal and Failing Heart. Presented at the 18th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Society of Echocardiography, Seattle, WA, June, 2007. 

10) Wozniak CJ, Pothoulakis AJ, Gargac SM, Darner RJ, Anstadt MP. Echocardiographic Assessment of Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation. ASAIO, 2007;53(2),40A.

11) Anstadt MP, Budharaju S, Wozniak CJ, Darner RJ, Prochaska LJ, Kerns SA, Gargac SM, Pothoulakis            AJ:Diastolic Augmentation During Direct Mechanical Cardiac Actuation. ASAIO, 2008;54(2),32A.

12) Budharaju S, Pothoulakis AJ, Kerns SA, Schmitt B, Darner RJ, Prochaska LJ, Portner PM, Anstadt MP. Direct Mechanical Ventricular Actuation Significantly Augments Left Ventricular Function In Failing Rabbit Heart Model. Circ, 2008:118(18), suppl 2,12. Presented, “Best of the Best Abstracts” at the 2008, AHA Scientific Sessions Nov 9-12, 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana.  

13) Budharaju S, Pothoulakis AJ, Prochaska LF, Kerns SA, Darner RJ, Schmitt BA, Portner PM, Anstadt MP. Non-Blood Contacting Support Device Effectively Augments Myocardial Function of the Neonatal-Sized Failing Heart. Accepted for presentation at STS, Jan 26-28, 2009, San Francisco, CA.