Mechanical effects of MitraClip on leaflet stress and myocardial strain in functional mitral regurgitation – A finite element modeling study

• Yue Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Vicky Y. Wang,

  Roles Investigation, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0895-3132

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• Ashley E. Morgan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jiwon Kim,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Mark D. Handschumacher,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9214-9544

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• Chaya S. Moskowitz,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Robert A. Levine,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Liang Ge,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Julius M. Guccione,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision

  Affiliations San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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• Jonathan W. Weinsaft,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Mark B. Ratcliffe

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.ratcliffe@va.gov

  Affiliations San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2460-3311

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