Patient-specific computational modeling of subendothelial LDL accumulation in a stenosed right coronary artery: Effect of hemodynamic and biological factors

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 304, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Sakellarios, Antonis I ^a   Papafaklis, Michail I ^b   Siogkas, Panagiotis ^a   Athanasiou, Lambros S ^a   Exarchos, Themistoklis P ^c   Stefanou, Konstantinos ^c   Bourantas, Christos V ^d   Naka, Katerina K ^a,e   Michalis, Lampros K ^a,e   Parodi, Oberdan ^f   Fotiadis, Dimitrios I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Endothelial permeability; Low density lipoprotein transport; Patient specific simulations; Risk factors; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN;

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIUM; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LIPID STORAGE; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SHEAR STRESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ENDOTHELIAL PERMEABILITY; LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN TRANSPORT; PATIENT-SPECIFIC SIMULATIONS; RISK FACTORS; SHEAR STRESS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CAPILLARY PERMEABILITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HEART RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIPOPROTEINS, LDL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84878757757     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: 15221539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00539.2012     Document Type: Article

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