Prosthetic aortic graft replacement of the ascending thoracic aorta alters biomechanics of the native descending aorta as assessed by transthoracic echocardiography

• Maria C. Palumbo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Lisa Q. Rong,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Jiwon Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Pedram Navid,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Razia Sultana,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jonathan Butcher,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Alberto Redaelli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Mary J. Roman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Richard B. Devereux,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Leonard N. Girardi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Mario F. L. Gaudino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jonathan W. Weinsaft

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jww2001@med.cornell.edu

  Affiliation Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8386-0297

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