Hemodynamics of the normal aorta compared to fusiform and saccular abdominal aortic aneurysms with emphasis on a potential thrombus formation mechanism

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 380-390

  Biasetti, Jacopo ^a   Gasser, T Christian ^a   Auer, Martin ^b   Hedin, Ulf ^c   Labruto, Fausto ^c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b VASCOPS GmbH   (Austria)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aorta; Aortic aneurysm; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Fusiform; Intra luminal thrombus; Saccular

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; ACTIVATED PLATELETS; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSMS; BLOOD FLOW; CARREAU; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GRIDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHIES; FINITE VOLUME ELEMENT; HIGH SHEAR; NON-NEWTONIAN BEHAVIORS; PLATELET ADHESION; RECIRCULATION ZONES; RECIRCULATIONS; STREAMING VELOCITY; THROMBUS FORMATION; WALL SHEAR STRESS;

BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD; BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUID DYNAMICS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; HEMODYNAMICS; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; PLATELETS; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THROMBOSIS; YOUNG MODULUS;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 77249088121     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9843-6     Document Type: Article

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