Patient-Specific Surgical Planning, Where Do We Stand? The Example of the Fontan Procedure

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 174-186

  de Zélicourt, Diane A ^a   Kurtcuoglu, Vartan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b National Center of Competence KidneyCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boundary conditions; Computational fluid dynamics (CFD); Multi scale; Numerical simulations; Review; Single ventricle heart defects; Total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC)

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); REVIEWS; SURGERY;

CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION; FUNCTIONAL HETEROGENEITY; HEART DEFECTS; MULTI-SCALE; PATIENT SPECIFIC SURGICAL PLANNING; PREDICTIVE CAPABILITIES; TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY HEMODYNAMICS; CATHETERIZATION; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEPATIC FLOW DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG RESISTANCE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RECURRENT DISEASE; SHEAR STRESS; SIMULATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PRECISION MEDICINE;

EID: 84952875836     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-015-1381-9     Document Type: Article

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