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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: JACC Heart Fail. 2013 Feb 25;1(3):252–258. doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.02.006

Figure 1. Diagram of a Cross-Sectional View of the Heart at Midventricular Level Showing AHI Location.

Figure 1

Left: untreated. Right: after treatment. Bottom: calculation of wall stress from Laplace law. σ = wall stress, AHI = alginate hydrogel implants; h = wall thickness; LV = left ventricle; P = intracavitary pressure, R = cavity radius; RV = right ventricle.