Hemodynamics and Mechanobiology of Aortic Valve Inflammation and Calcification

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 wel...

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Main Authors: Balachandran, Kartik, Sucosky, Philippe, Yoganathan, Ajit P.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133012/