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Contribution of Left and Right Atrial Appendage Activities to ECG Fibrillation Waves

Jean-Marc Vesin, Andréa Buttu, Etienne Pruvot

It was recently shown that atrial fibrillation (AF) waves on chest lead V1 adequately reflect right atrial appendage (RAA) activity during long standing persistent AF (pers-AF). The contribution of the left atrial (LA) activity to chest leads AF waves, how ...

2012

Impact of Aortic Grafts on Arterial Pressure: A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Philippe Reymond, Orestis Vardoulis, Bryn Andrew Martin, Eline Coppens

Objective: Vascular prostheses currently used in vascular surgery do not have the same mechanical properties as human arteries. This computational study analyses the mechanisms by which grafts, placed in the ascending aorta (proximal) and descending aorta ...

Elsevier2011

VR simulation of interventional radiology and microsurgery

Fei Wang

Currently trainees typically learn surgery techniques directly on mocks, animals or cadavers. For safety, cost and ethics reasons, one cannot try all possible strategies to achieve efficient learning. Virtual Reality (VR) based surgery training systems int ...

EPFL2009

Modélisation mécanique de fils pour la simulation chirurgicale

Lindo Robert Duratti

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents one of the major progresses in surgery in the last decade. In general, it is based on the application of small body-cuts through which instruments are inserted into the patient's body allowing the surgeon to carr ...

EPFL2008

Effect of an abdominal aortic aneurysm on wave reflection in the aorta

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Patrick Segers

Despite extensive attention to abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) in the biomedical engineering community, its effect on aortic hemodynamics and arterial wave reflection has not been addressed before. We used experimental and numerical methods, relying on a r ...

2008

Model-based inferences for clinical applications of the ECG

Doctor Macchi reported on the progress of an animal model study of electric propagation initiated by electric stimuli. Doctor Oostendorp first gave an introduction to the inverse problem of cardiac activation time mapping (ATM), the determination of the de ...

Elsevier2007

Optimization of the treatment of hydrocephalus by the non-invasive measurement of the intra-cranial pressure

Alec Ginggen

This thesis work aims to optimize the treatment of hydrocephalus. It consists of two distinct objectives: the optimization of the diagnosis of patients implanted with a shunt system for the derivation of cerebro-spinal fluid (CSF) and the optimization of t ...

EPFL2007

Effects of a stiffened arterial tree on ventricular-arterial coupling in healthy and diseased hearts

David Jegger

In this thesis we study ventricular-arterial coupling in rodents under the influence of arterial stiffening and myocardial infarction (MI), combination of the two considered as a novel cardiovascular research model for diseased hearts pumping against an ag ...

EPFL2006

Total arterial inertance as the fourth element of the windkessel model

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Nico Westerhof

In earlier studies we found that the three-element windkessel, although an almost perfect load for isolated heart studies, does not lead to accurate estimates of total arterial compliance. To overcome this problem, we introduce an inertial term in parallel ...

1999

Role of total arterial compliance and peripheral resistance in the determination of systolic and diastolic aortic pressure

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Nico Westerhof

The goal of the study was to define the major arterial parameters that determine aortic systolic (Ps) and diastolic (Pd) pressure in the dog. Measured aortic flows were used as input to the two-element windkessel model of the arterial system, with peripher ...

1999

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