Contractions, a risk for premature rupture of fetal membranes: A new protocol with cyclic biaxial tension

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 846-851

  Perrini, Michela ^a,b   Bürzle, Wilfried ^b   Haller, Claudia ^a   Ochsenbein Kölble, Nicole ^a,d   Deprest, Jan ^c,d   Zimmermann, Roland ^a,d   Mazza, Edoardo ^b,e   Ehrbar, Martin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d Task Force of the European Program for Soft Tissue Engineering for Children with Birth Defects   (Belgium)

^e SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cyclic loading; Fetal membranes; Mechanical behavior; Premature rupture

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC LOADS; DEFORMATION; IGNITION;

DEFORMATION PROPERTIES; FETAL MEMBRANES; IRREVERSIBLE DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR; MECHANICAL PARAMETERS; MULTIAXIAL STRESS STATE; PREMATURE RUPTURE; STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS;

MEMBRANES;

AMNION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC BIAXIAL TENSION; FEMALE; FETUS MEMBRANE; HUMAN; HYSTERESIS; PARAMETERS; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SAMPLE; STRENGTH; STRESS; TENSION;

EID: 84886594002     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2012.08.014     Document Type: Article

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