Regional and directional variations in the mechanical properties of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-9

  Iliopoulos, Dimitrios C ^a,b   Deveja, Rejar P ^b   Kritharis, Eleftherios P ^c   Perrea, Despina ^a   Sionis, George D ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Sokolis, Dimitrios P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms; Heterogeneity; Mechanical properties; Rupture

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTIC MODULI; STRESSES;

AORTIC WALLS; ASCENDING THORACIC AORTIC ANEURYSMS; DIRECTIONAL VARIATIONS; FAILURE STRESSES; HETEROGENEITY; INNER LAYERS; INVERSE CORRELATIONS; PATIENT AGES; RUPTURE; SURGICAL REPAIRS; TISSUE SPECIMENS; TISSUE STIFFNESSES; TISSUE STRENGTHS; WALL THICKNESSES;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM;

AGED; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 57849161028     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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