Pulmonary valve replacement (PVR) consists of substituting a patient's original valve with a prosthetic one, primarily addressing pulmonary valve insufficiency, which is crucially relevant in Tetralogy of Fallot repairment. While extensive clinical and computational literature on aortic and mitral valve replacements is available, PVR's post-procedural haemodynamics in the pulmonary artery and the impact of prosthetic valve dynamics remain significantly understudied. Addressing this gap, we introduce a reduced Fluid-Structure Interaction (rFSI) model, applied for the first time to the pulmonary valve.
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