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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2015 Oct 3;48(14):3883–3889. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2015.09.030

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Simulation results showing (A) the closed, loaded state of the valve model representing the case of the pathological valve with no resection of the NC aortic root. Note the regurgitant orifice formed due to inability of the three leaflets to meet in the valve center. (B) The region of the RC leaflet that coapts with the other two leaflets (shaded gray) for various root resection shapes. Rect5 and Rect10 refer to the width of the resected rectangle in millimeters. The width of the triangle and diamond regions was approximately 10 mm. (C) The closed, loaded state of the valve model representing the Rect10 resection shape. Note the central coaptation where the three leaflets meet.