COMPARISON OF SPECTRAL FEATURES OF ST. JUDE AND SORIN BILEAFLET MECHANICAL HEART VALVE SOUNDS

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
ALTUNKAYA SABRI ◽  
ASAIO Journal ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Yin ◽  
Irvin B. Krukenkamp ◽  
Adam E. Saltman ◽  
Glenn Gaudette ◽  
Krishnamurthy Suresh ◽  
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1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 781-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.H. Chiang ◽  
H. Lam ◽  
R. Quijano ◽  
R. Donham ◽  
P. Gilliam ◽  
...  

The effect of contact geometry and component compliance on the magnitude, distribution, and state of various types of stresses on a bileaflet mechanical heart valve prosthesis during valve closure was analyzed using an Edwards-Duromedics™ mitral valve as example. Static and dynamic stresses developing on both the leaflet and pivot ball during valve closure were modeled using finite element analysis (FEA). Uniform contact between the leaflet and housing as well as between the pivot ball and pivot slot can significantly reduce both static and dynamic stresses around the contact area. The level of the dynamic flexural stresses can be an order of magnitude higher than that of the static stresses. When both the radial and axial compliance of the housing are taken into consideration, peak dynamic stress was more than 40% less than that generated through the impact between a moving leaflet and a non-compliant rigid housing.


Author(s):  
Hoda Hatoum ◽  
Sravanthi Vallabhuneni ◽  
Arun Kumar Kota ◽  
David L. Bark ◽  
Ketul C. Popat ◽  
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Author(s):  
C. Hutchison ◽  
P. E. Sullivan ◽  
C. R. Ethier

Each year over 180,000 mechanical heart valves are implanted worldwide, with the bileaflet mechanical heart valve (BiMHV) accounting for approximately 85% of all valve replacements [1,2]. Although much improved from previous valve designs, aortic BiMHV design is far from ideal, and serious complications such as thromboembolism and hemolysis often result. Hemolysis and platelet activation are thought to be caused by turbulent Reynolds shear stresses in the flow [1]. Numerous previous studies have examined aortic BiMHV flow using LDA and two component Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and have shown the flow to be complex and three-dimensional [3,4]. Stereoscopic PIV (SPIV) can obtain all three velocity components on a flow plane, and hence has the potential to provide better understanding of three dimensional flow characteristics. The objective of the current study was to use SPIV to measure steady flow, including turbulence properties, downstream of a BiMHV in a modeled aorta. The resulting dataset will be useful for CFD model validation, and the intent is to make it publicly available.


2012 ◽  
Vol 569 ◽  
pp. 487-490
Author(s):  
Liang Liang Wu ◽  
Guo Jiang Wan ◽  
Feng Zhou ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Nan Huang

The Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve (BMHV) has been the most successful replacement mechanical heart valve, and is currently the most commonly implanted mechanical valve. Although the BMHV is an improvement over previous mechanical heart valves, there are still serious associated complications with its use that must be eliminated. After the completion of the processing and surface modification, heart valve ring and heart valve leaflets constitute a single whole with mechanical method to achieve its function process. In order to ensure that the heart valve is stable and reliable in service, it is particularly important to improve the assembly quality. The theoretical analysis and simulation used of ANSYS Workbench software for the behavior of the heart valve assembly have been done, the experimental results were verified by testing apparatus, which is a helpful tool used to simulate the new structure of the heart valve assembly, and play a certain significance to improve the accuracy of the assembly.


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