Is arterial wall-strain stiffening an additional process responsible for atherosclerosis in coronary bifurcations?: An in vivo study based on dynamic CT and MRI

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 301, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Ohayon, Jacques ^a,b,c   Gharib, Ahmed M ^a   Garcia, Alberto ^d   Heroux, Julie ^a   Yazdani, Saami K ^e   Malvè, Mauro ^d   Tracqui, Philippe ^b   Martinez, Miguel Angel ^d   Doblare, Manuel ^d   Finet, Gérard ^f   Pettigrew, Roderic I ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^e CVPATH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Biomechanics; Computed tomography; Coronary disease; Magnetic resonance imaging; Wall stiffness; Wall stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; HEART CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; VEIN COMPLIANCE;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052307379     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01120.2010     Document Type: Article

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