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Computational Investigation Of Injectable Treatment Strategies For Myocardial Infarction, Hua Wang
Computational Investigation Of Injectable Treatment Strategies For Myocardial Infarction, Hua Wang
Theses and Dissertations--Mechanical Engineering
Heart failure is an important medical disease and impacts millions of people throughout the world. In order to treat this problem, biomaterial injectable treatment injected into the myocardium of the failing LV are currently being developed. Through this treatment, the biomaterial material injections can reduce wall stresses during the cardiac remodeling process. By using computational techniques to analyze the effects of a treatment involving the injection of biomaterial material into the LV after MI, the material parameters of the hydrogel injections can be optimized. The results shows that the hydrogel injections could reduce the global average fiber stress and the …