Mitral valve disease—morphology and mechanisms

RA Levine, AA Hagége, DP Judge, M Padala… - Nature reviews …, 2015 - nature.com
Mitral valve disease is a frequent cause of heart failure and death. Emerging evidence
indicates that the mitral valve is not a passive structure, but—even in adult life—remains …

Growing matter: a review of growth in living systems

E Kuhl - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical …, 2014 - Elsevier
Living systems can grow, develop, adapt, and evolve. These phenomena are non-intuitive to
traditional engineers and often difficult to understand. Yet, classical engineering tools can …

Stress relaxation in epithelial monolayers is controlled by the actomyosin cortex

N Khalilgharibi, J Fouchard, N Asadipour, R Barrientos… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
Epithelial monolayers are one-cell-thick tissue sheets that line most of the body surfaces,
separating internal and external environments. As part of their function, they must withstand …

Finite element modeling of mitral valve dynamic deformation using patient-specific multi-slices computed tomography scans

Q Wang, W Sun - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2013 - Springer
The objective of this study was to develop a patient-specific finite element (FE) model of a
human mitral valve. The geometry of the mitral valve was reconstructed from multi-slice …

Isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shell formulations for biological membranes

AB Tepole, H Kabaria, KU Bletzinger, E Kuhl - Computer methods in …, 2015 - Elsevier
Computational modeling of thin biological membranes can aid the design of better medical
devices. Remarkable biological membranes include skin, alveoli, blood vessels, and heart …

Computational modeling of cardiac valve function and intervention

W Sun, C Martin, T Pham - Annual review of biomedical …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
In the past two decades, major advances have been made in the clinical evaluation and
treatment of valvular heart disease owing to the advent of noninvasive cardiac imaging …

On the effect of prestrain and residual stress in thin biological membranes

MK Rausch, E Kuhl - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2013 - Elsevier
Understanding the difference between ex vivo and in vivo measurements is critical to
interpret the load carrying mechanisms of living biological systems. For the past four …

On the In Vivo Deformation of the Mitral Valve Anterior Leaflet: Effects of Annular Geometry and Referential Configuration

R Amini, CE Eckert, K Koomalsingh… - Annals of biomedical …, 2012 - Springer
Alteration of the native mitral valve (MV) shape has been hypothesized to have a profound
effect on the local tissue stress distribution, and is potentially linked to limitations in repair …