Cardiovascular and Cardiac Therapeutic Devices

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Franz, Thomas (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Studies in Mechanobiology, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials, 15
• Subjects: Engineering.; Cardiology.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biomedical engineering.; Biomaterials.; Biomedical Engineering.; Biophysics and Biological Physics.

This volume focuses on latest research in therapeutic devices for cardiovascular, i.e. vascular and valvular, and cardiac diseases. Aspects of vascular therapies covered relate to stent grafts for aortic aneurysms, endovascular stents for percutaneous arterial interventions, and small- to medium-dia...

Table of Contents:

• Multi-objective design of a biodegradable coronary artery stent
• Development of a fabric-reinforced porous graft for vascular tissue engineering using finite element methods and genetic algorithms
• Aortic aneurysms: OSR, EVAR, stent-grafts, migration and endoleak—current state of the art and analysis
• Flexible leaflet polymeric heart valves
• Aortic biological prosthetic valve for open-surgery and percutaneous implant: Procedure simulation and performance assessment
• Cardiac restraint and support following myocardial infarction
• In vivo mechanical loading conditions of pectorally implanted cardiac pacemakers.