Ivan Fumagalli

Jul 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Dipartimento di Chimica |Ivan Fumagalli |Alfio Quarteroni |Elisabetta Criseo

1 INTRODUCTION Valve replacement is a surgical treatment extensively used on patients with advanced valvular heart disease; it consists in the replacement of the patient's native valve with a prosthetic one.1, 2 In the clinical literature, the most studied procedures are aortic and mitral valve replacement3-7; however, valve replacement is an option also in the case of pulmonary valve pathologies and research about this procedure is increasing.