Saddle Shape of the Mitral Annulus Reduces Systolic Strains on the P2 Segment of the Posterior Mitral Leaflet

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1499-1504

  Padala, Muralidhar ^a   Hutchison, Ross A ^a   Croft, Laura R ^a   Jimenez, Jorge H ^a   Gorman, Robert C ^b   Gorman III, Joseph H ^b   Sacks, Michael S ^c   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MITRAL VALVE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STEREOPHOTOGRAMMETRY; SYSTOLE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWINE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; MITRAL VALVE; SWINE; SYSTOLE;

EID: 70449726986     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.06.042     Document Type: Article

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