Flow through a defective mechanical heart valve: A steady flow analysis

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-305

  Smadi, O ^a   Fenech, M ^b   Hassan, I ^a   Kadem, L ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Defective leaflet; Doppler Echocardiography; Mechanical heart valve; Numerical simulations

Indexed keywords

DEFECTIVE LEAFLET; DEVELOP PARAMETERS; DOPPLER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EARLY DETECTIONS; EMERGENCY SURGERIES; FLOW ANALYSIS; FLOW-THROUGH; MECHANICAL HEART VALVE; MECHANICAL VALVES; NON-INVASIVE; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSIS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASE-CONTRAST MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLATELET ACTIVATIONS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; THROMBUS FORMATIONS; TRANSVALVULAR PRESSURE GRADIENTS; VALVE LEAFLETS; VALVE REPLACEMENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

VALVES (MECHANICAL);

ARTICLE; CELL DAMAGE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SHEAR STRESS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 60749117774     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.07.003     Document Type: Article

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