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An impeller the same geometry as the impeller of a commercial monopivot cardiopulmonary bypass pump was manufactured using 3D printing. The 3D-printed impeller was integrated into the pump casing of the commercially available pump to form a 3D-printed pump model. The surface roughness of the impeller, the hydraulic performance, the axial displacement of the rotating impeller, and the hemolytic properties of the 3D-printed model were measured and compared with those of the commercially available model. Although the surface roughness of the 3D-printed model was significantly larger than that of the commercially available model, the hydraulic performance of the two models almost coincided. The hemolysis level of the 3D-printed model roughly coincided with that of the commercially available model under low-pressure head conditions, but increased greatly under high-pressure head conditions, as a result of the narrow gap between the rotating impeller and the pump casing. The gap became narrow under high-pressure head conditions, because the axial thrust applied to the impeller increased with increasing impeller rotational speed. Moreover, the axial displacement of the rotating impeller was twice that of the commercially available model, confirming that the elastic deformation of the 3D-printed impeller was larger than that of the commercially available impeller. These results suggest that trial models manufactured by 3D printing can reproduce the hydraulic performance of the commercial product. However, both the surface roughness and the deformation of the trial models must be considered to precisely evaluate the hemolytic properties of the model.
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The authors would like to thank Mr. Keiichi Higuchi from Hiyama Industry, Co., Ltd., and Mr. Hiroshi Yamashita from the Industrial Technology Institute of Ibaraki Prefecture for providing planning, technical support for 3D printing, and surface roughness measurements.
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Masahiro Nishida received research funding from Senko Medical Instrument Manufacturing, Co., Ltd. Katsuyuki Kuwana is the employee of Senko Medical Instrument manufacturing, Co., Ltd. The other authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
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Nishida, M., Negishi, T., Sakota, D. et al. Properties of a monopivot centrifugal blood pump manufactured by 3D printing. J Artif Organs 19, 322–329 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10047-016-0914-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10047-016-0914-9