A defunctionalized ileal pouch is thin-walled (1-2 mm), well perfused (blood flow, 0.3-1.0 ml/g/min), and tactile-insensitive. If fixed within the abdominal wall and provided with a miniature stoma for primary wire entry, the heat dissipating capacity and achievable geometries could facilitate small efficient intra-to extracorporeal power transformers with virtually complete magnetic flux containment. Two transformers (A, weighing 102 gm with dual ferrite cores, intraluminal primary and extraluminal secondary each with 10 turns on its own crescentic ferrite core, 90 kHz, coupling coefficient k = 0.90-0.96; and B, 68 gm, a single flexible torroidal magnetic metallic tape core with attached 11 turn primary and free 14 turn serosal secondary, 14.7 kHz, k = 0.99) met the electrical and anatomic requirements. Each was implanted (minilaparotomy, coil-pouch fixation within abdominal musculature) in 4 dogs for 14-21 days to test the operative feasibility, electrical function, warming, and flux containment. For canine testing, wires were tunneled to a chewing-inaccessible site. Neither tissue necrosis, infection, provokable interference from contiguous metal, nor coil displacement were observed; secretions were retained in Group A pouches only. The mean power transmissions for the transformers were A: 24.90 & 1.50 W and B: 24.92 & 0.89 W, after operation for 7 days or more. The mean efficiencies were A: 75.6 * 0.1% total DCIDC, 96.2% coils and B: 80.4 + 0.1% total DC/DC, 96.2% coils. The peak skin surface magnetic fluxes for transformers A and B, both trivial at 1.7 and 1.2 G, respectively, were similar. Warming was 0.62 k 0.30"C in Group A and 0.73 f 0.19"C in Group B. The probability values were p < 0.5 (NS) for DC/DC efficiency and p > 0.10 (NS), for A versus B in all other areas of comparison. Observations for both were encouraging. Transformer B, with less mass, lower frequency, higher efficiency, and intrinsic invulnerability to displacement, was selected for longer term evaluation.
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