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Heart valve prostheses
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Other
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Kv may standardize hydraulic efficiency ranking of valve prostheses; leaves open clinical validation before guiding device selection.
The proposal of a standardized pressure loss coefficient (Kv) provides a hydraulic figure-of-merit to objectively compare the efficiency of different heart valve prostheses.
Viggers et al. (1967) studied this question.
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