Biomechanical factors in coronary vulnerable plaque risk of rupture: Intravascular ultrasound-based patient-specific fluid-structure interaction studies

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 75-87

  Liang, Xuan ^a   Xenos, Michalis ^a,d   Alemu, Yared ^a   Rambhia, Suraj H ^a   Lavi, Ifat ^c   Kornowski, Ran ^c   Gruberg, Luis ^b   Fuchs, Shmuel ^c   Einav, Shmuel ^a,c   Bluestein, Danny ^a  

^a St Francis Hospital The Heart Center   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

anisotropic fiber orientation; coronary vulnerable plaque; fibrous cap; fluidstructure interaction; hypertension; microcalcification; patient based geometry

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN FIBER;

ARTERIAL ANISOTROPY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VULNERABLE PLAQUE; FIBROUS CAP MICROCALCIFICATION; FIBROUS CAP THICKNESS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATIENT SPECIFIC FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION SIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION;

ANISOTROPY; BIOMECHANICS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR CALCIFICATION;

EID: 84873356541     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e32835bbe99     Document Type: Article

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