Fluid mechanics of heart valves and their replacements

F Sotiropoulos, TB Le, A Gilmanov - Annual Review of Fluid …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
As the pulsatile cardiac blood flow drives the heart valve leaflets to open and close, the flow
in the vicinity of the valve resembles a pulsed jet through a nonaxisymmetric orifice with a …

Calcific aortic stenosis—a review on acquired mechanisms of the disease and treatments

B Zebhi, M Lazkani, D Bark Jr - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Calcific aortic stenosis is a progressive disease that has become more prevalent in recent
decades. Despite advances in research to uncover underlying biomechanisms, and …

Dynamic and fluid–structure interaction simulations of bioprosthetic heart valves using parametric design with T-splines and Fung-type material models

MC Hsu, D Kamensky, F Xu, J Kiendl, C Wang… - Computational …, 2015 - Springer
This paper builds on a recently developed immersogeometric fluid–structure interaction
(FSI) methodology for bioprosthetic heart valve (BHV) modeling and simulation. It enhances …

Lagrangian postprocessing of computational hemodynamics

SC Shadden, A Arzani - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2015 - Springer
Recent advances in imaging, modeling, and computing have rapidly expanded our
capabilities to model hemodynamics in the large vessels (heart, arteries, and veins). This …

A novel mathematical model of activation and sensitization of platelets subjected to dynamic stress histories

JS Soares, J Sheriff, D Bluestein - Biomechanics and modeling in …, 2013 - Springer
Blood recirculating devices, such as ventricular assist devices and prosthetic heart valves,
are burdened by thromboembolic complications requiring complex and lifelong …

Obstacles in haemocompatibility testing

W Van Oeveren - Scientifica, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
ISO 10993‐4 is an international standard describing the methods of testing of medical
devices for interactions with blood for regulatory purpose. The complexity of blood …

Emerging trends in heart valve engineering: Part II. Novel and standard technologies for aortic valve replacement

A Kheradvar, EM Groves, CJ Goergen, SH Alavi… - Annals of biomedical …, 2015 - Springer
The engineering of technologies for heart valve replacement (ie, heart valve engineering) is
an exciting and evolving field. Since the first valve replacement, technology has progressed …

Multiscale particle-based modeling of flowing platelets in blood plasma using dissipative particle dynamics and coarse grained molecular dynamics

P Zhang, C Gao, N Zhang, MJ Slepian, Y Deng… - Cellular and molecular …, 2014 - Springer
We developed a multiscale particle-based model of platelets, to study the transport
dynamics of shear stresses between the surrounding fluid and the platelet membrane. This …

Comparison of platelet activation through hinge vs bulk flow in bileaflet mechanical heart valves

M Hedayat, I Borazjani - Journal of biomechanics, 2019 - Elsevier
Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHVs) are prone to thromboembolic complications
which are believed to be initiated by platelet activation. Platelets are activated by non …

Mesoscale modeling: solving complex flows in biology and biotechnology

ZG Mills, W Mao, A Alexeev - Trends in biotechnology, 2013 - cell.com
Fluids are involved in practically all physiological activities of living organisms. However,
biological and biorelated flows are hard to analyze due to the inherent combination of …