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HEART-VALVE, MECHANICAL

Known as: mechanical heart valve, mechanical valve heart, heart mechanical valves 
 
National Institutes of Health

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1990-2017
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2007
Highly Cited
2007
Flow-induced platelet activation and damage accumulation in a mechanical heart valve: numerical studies.
A model for platelet activation based on the theory of damage, incorporating cumulative effects of stress history and past damage… (More)
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2005
2005
Flow-induced platelet activation in a St. Jude mechanical heart valve, a trileaflet polymeric heart valve, and a St. Jude tissue valve.
Polymer heart valves have been under investigation since the 1960s, but their success has been hampered by an overall lack of… (More)
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2001
2001
Integrating particle image velocimetry and laser Doppler velocimetry measurements of the regurgitant flow field past mechanical heart valves.
This study investigates the transient regurgitant flow downstream of a prosthetic heart valve using both laser Doppler… (More)
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2001
2001
Mechanisms of mechanical heart valve cavitation: investigation using a tilting disk valve model.
BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The induction of mechanical heart valve (MHV) cavitation was investigated using a 27 mm Medtronic… (More)
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1999
1999
Thrombogenicity of polyethylene oxide-bonded Dacron sewing ring in a mechanical heart valve.
BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of binding hydrophilic polyethylene oxide (PEO… (More)
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1999
1999
Leakage flow at mechanical heart valve prostheses: improved washout or increased blood damage?
BACKGROUND AND AIMS OF THE STUDY An essential problem of mechanical heart valve (MHV) prostheses is the risk of thromboembolic… (More)
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1998
1998
Microemboli in cerebral circulation and alteration of cognitive abilities in patients with mechanical prosthetic heart valves.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It has been shown previously that cerebral microemboli may occur frequently in patients with a normal… (More)
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1994
1994
A squeeze flow phenomenon at the closing of a bileaflet mechanical heart valve prosthesis.
In vivo cavitation in cardiovascular flow fields may occur under very unusual circumstances as a localized transient phenomenon… (More)
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1994
1994
Occluder closing behavior: a key factor in mechanical heart valve cavitation.
A laser sweeping technique developed in this laboratory was found to be capable of monitoring the leaflet closing motion with… (More)
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1991
1991
Venturi pressure cannot cause cavitation in mechanical heart valve prostheses.
Surface pitting of certain mechanical heart valve (MHV) explants has prompted investigation into possible causes of cavitation… (More)
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