Annuloplasty Rings: Increasing accommodation to native geometries and improving stress distribution
 

Introduction Annuloplasty Rings Design Considerations Current and Future Devices References

 

 

 

References

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Created by James Yamada for BME 240

Spring 2010, jyamada@uci.edu