Michele Conti

TL;DR: Finite element analysis is used to evaluate the performance of three self-expanding stent designs in a carotid artery (CA) and suggests that the laser-cut closed-cell design provides a higher lumen gain and the stent configuration and stent oversizing have a limited impact on the vessel straightening.

TL;DR: A finite element framework is defined to realistically reproduce TAVI procedures and the impact of aortic root anatomy on procedure outcomes starting from two real patient datasets and it is observed that, in both patients, stent apposition significantly induces anatomical configuration changes, while it leads to different stress distributions on the aorta.

TL;DR: This study investigates a balloon-expandable valve and proposes a novel simulation strategy to reproduce its implantation using computational tools, which enabled the entire prosthetic device virtually implanted in a patient-specific aortic root created by processing medical images.

TL;DR: The use of a custom-made stent-graft to perform a fully endovascular repair of an asymptomatic ascending aortic pseudoaneurysm in a patient, who was a poor candidate for open surgery is described.

TL;DR: In this experimental set-up, aortic stiffness increased significantly after stent graft deployment with each of the four types ofStent graft, with the increase in aorti stiffness depending on the extent of Stent graft coverage.