Potential hemodynamic mechanisms for gender differences in AAA formation

ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference, SBC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 11-12

  Smolensky, Alexander V ^b   Clement, Stephanie ^a,b   Passerini, Tiziano ^d   Piccinelli, Marina ^d   Veneziani, Alessandro ^a,d   Oshinski, John N ^a,b   Taylor, W Robert ^a,b,c  

^a Emory University   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE; INFRARENAL AORTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; OSCILLATORY SHEAR STRESS; PHASE-CONTRAST IMAGING;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SHEAR STRESS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

EID: 84882684774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/SBC2012-80767     Document Type: Conference Paper

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