Artificial placenta: two days of total extrauterine support of the isolated premature lamb fetus.
A premature lamb fetus was totally sustained by extracorporeal perfusion with the use of a silicone-membrane blood oxygenator and parenteral nutritional support. The fetus remained in a metabolically stable state lasting several days.
D000818:Animals; D001187:Artificial Organs / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005112:Extracorporeal Circulation; D005333:Fetus / Q000502:physiology*; D005865:Gestational Age; D010477:Perfusion; D010920:Placenta; D012756:Sheep; D013995:Time; D013997:Time Factors