Hemodynamics and Mechanobiology of Aortic Valve Inflammation and Calcification

• Ngā kaituhi matua: Kartik Balachandran (Author), Philippe Sucosky (Author), Ajit P. Yoganathan (Author)
• Hōputu: Pukapuka
• I whakaputaina: Hindawi Limited, 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Ngā marau: article
• Urunga tuihono: Connect to this object online.

Cardiac valves function in a mechanically complex environment, opening and closing close to a billion times during the average human lifetime, experiencing transvalvular pressures and pulsatile and oscillatory shear stresses, as well as bending and axial stress. Although valves were originally thoug...