In vitro evaluation of right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with bicuspid valved polytetrafluoroethylene conduit

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1010-1016

  Dur, Onur ^a   Yoshida, Masahiro ^b   Manor, Philip ^a   Mayfield, Alice ^a   Wearden, Peter D ^b   Morell, Victor O ^b   Pekkan, Kerem ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicuspid valved conduit; Computational fluid dynamics; Congenital heart disease; Hemodynamics; Regurgitant fraction; Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction; Valves

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; DROPS; HEMODYNAMICS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; PRESSURE DROP; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

BICUSPID VALVED CONDUIT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HAEMODYNAMICS; IN-VITRO; IN-VITRO EVALUATION; OUTFLOW TRACTS; PERFORMANCE; REGURGITANT FRACTION; RIGHT VENTRICULAR; RIGHT VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW TRACT RECONSTRUCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS;

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DIASTOLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; INFANT; LUNG CIRCULATION; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIMULATION; SYSTOLE;

EID: 78649573208     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01136.x     Document Type: Article

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