The piece, called The Immortal, uses a modified heart-lung machine, dialysis machine, mechanical mentilator, infant incubator, and intraoperative cell salvage machine to form a closed circuit circulating artificial blood, electrical signals, and air in order to replicate a biological structure.
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a critical life-sustaining treatment, works as a modified heart-lung machine, sustaining severely ill patients for several days or weeks while the patients await treatment for or undergo recovery from cardiac or respiratory failure.
With the aid of a modified heart lung machine, a circulation is established and a dynamic angiography can be performed, showing the arterial, parenchymatous and venous systems [ 25].
The new treatment involves "washing" donor organs by connecting them for several hours to a modified heart and lung bypass machine.
Heart failure-related quality of life was assessed using a modified version of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHF).
Apo-myoglobin (from horse heart, Sigma) was prepared by using a modified extraction method by Teale [21].
The heart sound recording process is done electronically using a modified standard stethoscope to generate digital data.
Plasma and reconstituted heart samples were analyzed for NE content using a modified inline capture, column-switching high performance liquid chromatography procedure with electrochemical detection [ 23, 27].
Comorbidities of interest included myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, cardiovascular disease, chronic pulmonary disease, rheumatic heart disease, and renal insufficiency/renal failure, which were summarized using a modified Charlson score (excluding cancer and diabetes).
