Experimental setup to evaluate the performance of percutaneous pulmonary valved stent in different outflow tract morphologies

Artificial Organs

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Vismara, Riccardo ^a,b   Laganà, Katia ^a   Migliavacca, Francesco ^a   Schievano, Silvia ^c   Coats, Louise ^c   Taylor, Andrew ^c   Bonhoeffer, Philipp ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Toscana G Monasterio   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart valve prosthesis; In vitro test; Pulmonary valve; Stent

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SILICONES; SITE SELECTION; STENTS;

CONDITION; IMPLANTATION SITES; IN-VITRO TESTING; IN-VITRO TESTS; MORPHOLOGY SELECTIONS; OUTFLOW TRACTS; PERFORMANCE; PULMONARY VALVES; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; VALVED STENT;

GEOMETRY;

ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEMODYNAMICS; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG CIRCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP; SIMULATION; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

EID: 58649109840     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2008.00673.x     Document Type: Article

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