Computational Model of Heart’s Mitral Valve to Predict Surgery Outcomes

Recently, transcatheter mitral valve implants have started to become popular, but they're very difficult to place so as not to obstruct nearby blood flow. Bioengineers at The University of Texas at Austin, Penn Medicine and Georgia Tech have developed a computational modeling method for the movement of mitral valve flaps, which may allow physicians to simulate different surgical techniques and predict which will work out the best. Mitral valves are hard to study in vivo because they're dee...

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