Understanding TAVR device expansion as it relates to morphology of the bicuspid aortic valve: A simulation study

• Jonathan Kusner ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Kusner, Giulia Luraghi

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1466-4345

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• Giulia Luraghi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jonathan Kusner, Giulia Luraghi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘Giulio Natta’, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Farhan Khodaee,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5872-5037

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• José Félix Rodriguez Matas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘Giulio Natta’, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Francesco Migliavacca,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering ‘Giulio Natta’, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

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• Elazer R. Edelman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Farhad R. Nezami

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Frikhtegarnezami@BWH.Harvard.edu, Farhadr@MIT.edu

  Affiliations Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America, Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4210-3177

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