A Non-invasive Material Characterization Framework for Bioprosthetic Heart Valves

Publication Date

9-18-2018

Document Type

Article

Organizational Units

Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Keywords

Computational modeling, Bioprosthetic heart valves, Material characterization

Abstract

Computational modeling and simulation has become more common in design and development of bioprosthetic heart valves. To have a reliable computational model, considering accurate mechanical properties of biological soft tissue is one of the most important steps. The goal of this study was to present a non-invasive material characterization framework to determine mechanical propertied of soft tissue employed in bioprosthetic heart valves. Using integrated experimental methods (i.e., digital image correlation measurements and hemodynamic testing in a pulse duplicator system) and numerical methods (i.e., finite element modeling and optimization), three-dimensional anisotropic mechanical properties of leaflets used in two commercially available transcatheter aortic valves (i.e., Edwards SAPIEN 3 and Medtronic CoreValve) were characterized and compared to that of a commonly used and well-examined surgical bioprosthesis (i.e., Carpentier-Edwards PERIMOUNT Magna aortic heart valve). The results of the simulations showed that the highest stress value during one cardiac cycle was at the peak of systole in the three bioprostheses. In addition, in the diastole, the peak of maximum in-plane principal stress was 0.98, 0.96, and 2.95 MPa for the PERIMOUNT Magna, CoreValve, and SAPIEN 3, respectively. Considering leaflet stress distributions, there might be a difference in the long-term durability of different TAV models.

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