Flow simulations and validation for the first cohort of patients undergoing the Y-graft Fontan procedure

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 247-255

  Yang, Weiguang ^a   Chan, Frandics P ^a   Reddy, V Mohan ^a   Marsden, Alison L ^b   Feinstein, Jeffrey A ^a,c  

^a Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HUMAN; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LUNG PERFUSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; THROMBOSIS; Y GRAFT FONTAN PROCEDURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LIVER CIRCULATION; LUNG CIRCULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84922332723     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.069     Document Type: Article

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