Modeling the Mitral Valve [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This thesis is concerned with modeling and simulation of the mitral valve, one of the four valves in the human heart. The valve is composed of leaflets attached to a ring, the free edges of which are supported by a system of chordae, which themselves are anchored to muscles inside the heart.
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Artificial Heart Valves with Balanced Charged Networks Exhibiting Anti-Calcification Properties.
ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2019 Currently, the only treatment for moderate and severe aortic valve calcification disease is valve replacement. The clinical use of bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) is limited because of device failure caused by structural degeneration, such as the ...
Feng Guo +5 more
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The optimal intensity of vitamin k antagonists in patients with mechanical heart valves A meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2003 ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to compare two different intensities of vitamin K antagonists (VKA) among patients with mechanical heart valves using meta-analytic techniques.BackgroundPatients with mechanical heart valves are at increased risk ...
Büller, Harry R. +6 more
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THE ROLE OF ANTICOAGULATION THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH PROSTHETIC HEART VALVES
Klinicist, 2016 Cardiac surgery is the only radical method of treatment of valvular defects (congenital or acquired): valve preservation procedures or prosthetics operations.
N. A. Shostak +4 more
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Adherence of Staphylococcus aureus to Dyneema Purity® Patches and to Clinically Used Cardiovascular Prostheses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Various materials that are used for vascular and heart valve prostheses carry drawbacks: some require anticoagulant drugs or have moderate durability; others are not suitable for endovascular treatment.
Amir Basir +5 more
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A Computational Framework for Atrioventricular Valve Modeling using Open-Source Software [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Atrioventricular valve regurgitation is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with acquired and congenital cardiac valve disease. Image-derived computational modeling of atrioventricular valves has advanced substantially over the last decade and holds particular promise to inform valve repair in small and heterogeneous populations ...
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Effects of stenotic aortic valve on the left heart hemodynamics: a fluid-structure-electrophysiology approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The aortic valve is a three-leaflet passive structure that, driven by pressure differences between the left ventricle and the aorta, opens and closes during the heartbeat to ensure the correct stream direction and flow rate. In elderly individuals or because of particular pathologies, the valve leaflets can stiffen thus impairing the valve functioning ...
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Hemodynamics of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve with Different Levels of Dysfunction [PDF]
Volume 2 Issue 5 - 2017, 2017 Heart disease is one of leading causes of mortality worldwide. Healthy heart valves are key for proper heart function. When these valves dysfunction, a replacement is often necessary in severe cases. The current study presents an investigation of the pulsatile blood flow through a bileaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) where one leaflet is healthy and
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Design and Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering of Human Heart Valves [PDF]
, 2009 We developed a new fabrication technique for 3-dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering of human heart valve tissue. A human aortic homograft was scanned with an X-ray computer tomograph.
Fu, P. +8 more
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The Use of Biological Heart Valves.
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 2019 BACKGROUND Biological heart-valve prostheses have undergone continuous devel- opment up to the present, and technological advances have been made in catheter- assisted valve systems (transcatheter aortic valve implantation, TAVI) and minimally invasive ...
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