Flow rate variance of a fully implantable pump for the delivery of intravenous treprostinil in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Implantable infusion pumps might improve the convenience and safety of intravenous treprostinil for pulmonary arterial hypertension. The LENUS Pro® pump (approved in Europe) has a fixed flow rate. Based on 126 pumps and 2853 refills, we retrospectively analyzed the actual flow rate from 09/2010 to 0...

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Main Authors: Manuel J. Richter, Satenik Harutyunova, Tom Bollmann, Simon Classen, Jan Fuge, Henning Gall, Felix Gerhardt, Hossein A. Ghofrani, Hartmut Gunkel, Ekkehard Grünig, Michael Halank, Alexander Heine, Hans Klose, Tobias J. Lange, Claus Neurohr, Kai Nickolaus, Christian F. Opitz, Stephan Rosenkranz, Hans-Jürgen Seyfarth, Khodr Tello, Ralf Ewert, Karen M. Olsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-03-01
Series:Pulmonary Circulation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2045894020910136