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The fibre strain when the mitral valve is fully opened (a), just closed (b), and fully loaded at a transvalvular pressure of 150 mmHg (c). The corresponding fibre stress distributions are shown in (d–f), respectively, which is capped at a peak stress of 500 kPa to remove unrealistic high stress concentrations at the chordae insertion areas.
