Computational Evaluation of Platelet Activation Induced by a Bioprosthetic Heart Valve

Artificial Organs

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 157-165

  Sirois, Eric ^a   Sun, Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioprosthetic heart valve; Blood damage; Computational fluid dynamics; Platelet activation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; PLATELETS; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

AORTIC ROOT; BIOPROSTHETIC HEART VALVES; BLOOD DAMAGE; COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS MODELING; HAEMODYNAMICS; MECHANICAL; ONE-PASS; PLATELET ACTIVATION; SINUS RHYTHM;

FLOW VELOCITY;

AORTA ROOT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART; BIOPROSTHESIS; BIOPROSTHETIC HEART VALVE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; ERYTHROCYTE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLOW RATE; HEMOLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 79951637965     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01048.x     Document Type: Article

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