1. In vitro assessment of mitral valve function in cyclically pressurized porcine hearts 
Riccardo Vismara, Alberto M. Leopaldi, Marco Piola, Chiara Asselta, Massimo Lemma, Carlo Antona, Alberto Redaelli, Frans van de Vosse, Marcel Rutten, Gianfranco B. Fiore 
Medical Engineering and Physics 
Volume 38, Issue 4, Pages (April 2016)
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2. Fig. 1
Left: A photography of the EPML; Right: schematic of the mock loop. PD: pulse duplicator; LV: left ventricle; SIS: systemic input impedance; PR: pre-load.
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3. Fig. 2
Left: A photography of the EPML. Right: Schematic of the mock loop. PP: pulsatile pup; AL: afterload; R: reservoir; CP: centrifugal pump; PL: preload; FFC: Fluid-filled chamber; VP: Vacuum pump; VS: vacuum sealing. Venting for de-airing in the filling procedure.
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4. Fig. 3
Representative flow and pressure curves recorded with the two mock loops. Early systole (ES), peak systole (PS) and late systole (LS) are identified in the flow rate courses.
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5. Fig. 4
Snapshots from the atrial high-speed movie recorded with the IPML (above) and with the EPML, in ES, PS and LS from left to right. Numbers in the images identify the columns of dots used to reconstruct leaflets areas with the Matlab code.
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6. Fig. 5
Available coaptation area (ACA) and coaptation length (CL) in the two mock loops.
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7. Fig. 6 PMs-MV distances in the two mock loops.
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8. Fig. 7
Schematics of left ventricle configurations showing relative positioning of mitral valve plane and papillary muscles in physiologic conditions (A), in the EPML (B), in the IPML (C).
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