LONG-TERM MECHANICAL FATIGUE RESPONSE OF PORCINE BIOPROSTHETIC HEART VALVES

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 1998-D, Issue , 1998, Pages 343-344

  Billiar, Kristen L ^a   Sacks, Michael S ^a  

^a University of Miami College of Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 77952712707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/imece1998-0165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. Billiar, K.L., 1998, “A structurally guided constitutive model for aortic valve bioprostheses: Effects of glutaraldehyde treatment and mechanical fatigue,” Ph.D. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2. Gloeckner, D.C., Billiar, K.L. and Sacks, M.S. 1998 (In Press), “Effects of fatigue on the bending behavior of bioprosthetic aortic heart valve,” ASAIO Transactions.
3. Vyavahare, N. et al., (Submitted) “Mechanisms of cardiac valve deterioration: Cyclic fatigue causes collagen structural alterations and loss of glycosaminoglycans,” Nature Medicine.