ENGINEERING-DESIGN-BASED WORKFLOW FOR VALVE RECONSTRUCTION

摘要

An engineering workflow for prospective design of heart valve leaflet grafts for surgical heart valve reconstruction is disclosed. The engineering workflow includes utilizing a quantitative description of one or more mechanical properties of one or more materials to be used for the heart valve reconstruction to prescribe a size and/or a shape of the materials to achieve a predetermined configuration of a final reconstructed heart valve in its physiological working state for a given patient.