Association of Uneven MitraClip Application and Leaflet Stress in a Finite Element Model

Affiliations

• ¹ UCSF East Bay Surgical Residency, San Francisco, California.
• ² Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco3San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
• ⁴ San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California5Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York.
• ⁶ Departments of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology, Weill Cornell College of Medicine, New York, New York.
• ⁷ San Francisco VA Medical Center, San Francisco, California8Departments of Surgery and Bioengineering, University of California, San Francisco.