Characterizing left atrial appendage functions in sinus rhythm and atrial fibrillation using computational models

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2515-2523

  Zhang, Lucy T ^a   Gay, Mickaël ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Fluid structure interaction; Immersed finite element method; Left atrial appendage; Left atrium; Sinus rhythm

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HEMODYNAMICS; LEAD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

(MIN ,MAX ,+) FUNCTIONS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION (ATF); BLOOD FLOWS; CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS; CLINICAL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; ELSEVIER (CO); HEART RHYTHM; LEFT ATRIUM (LA); SINUS RHYTHM (SR); THROMBUS FORMATION;

SPEED;

A WAVE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOGENESIS; VELOCITY; VORTEX MOTION;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 46349086133     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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