The advent of implantable blood recirculating devices has provided life-saving solutions to
patients with severe cardiovascular diseases. Recently it has been reported that ventricular …

Even though the mechanical heart valve (MHV) has been used routinely in clinical practice
for over 60 years, the occurrence of serious complications such as blood clotting remains to …

Bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHV) are widely used to replace diseased heart valves.
Implantation of BMHV, however, has been linked with major complications, which are …

For accurate particle image velocimetry measurements in hemodynamics studies, it is
important to use a fluid with a refractive index (n) matching that of the vascular models …

The high incidence of thromboembolic complications of mechanical heart valves (MHV),
primarily due to platelet activation by contact with foreign surfaces and by non-physiological …

We have performed high-resolution fluid–structure interaction simulations of physiologic
pulsatile flow through a bi-leaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) in an anatomically realistic …

The presence of vortical flow structures that develop inside different cardiac chambers is
shown to correlate with functional status of heart, and significantly affects the cardiac …

In this paper, the structure and the dynamics of the flow in the left heart ventricle are studied
for different pumping efficiencies and mitral valve types (natural, biological and mechanical …

Objective: A prospective clinical study was designed to assess the frequency and severity of
intravascular hemolysis in patients with new-generation, normally functioning prosthetic …

Methods: The procoagulant activity of platelets was measured using a real-time assay of
platelet activation state (PAS), which was based on a modification of the prothrombinase …