Zhedian Zhou1, Tal Geva2, Rahul H. Rathod2, Alexander Tang2, Chun Yang3, Kristen L. Billiar4, Dalin Tang1,*,3, Pedro del Nido5
Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.15, No.2, pp. 99-115, 2018, DOI: 10.3970/mcb.2018.00558
Abstract Patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF), a congenital heart defect which includes a ventricular septal defect and severe right ventricular outflow obstruction, account for the majority of cases with late onset right ventricle (RV) failure. The current surgical approach, which includes pulmonary valve replacement/insertion (PVR), has yielded mixed results. A computational parametric study using 7 patient-specific RV/LV models based on cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) data as "virtual surgery" was performed to investigate the impact of patch size, RV remodeling and tissue regeneration in PVR surgery design on RV cardiac functions. Two patch sizes, three degrees of scar trimming (RV… More >
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