Variations of dissection properties and mass fractions with thrombus age in human abdominal aortic aneurysms

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 14-23

  Tong, J ^a   Cohnert, T ^b   Regitnig, P ^b   Kohlbacher, J ^b   Birner Gruenberger, R ^b,c   Schriefl, A J ^a   Sommer, G ^a   Holzapfel, G A ^a,d  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c AUSTRIAN CENTRE OF INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dissection; Intraluminal thrombus; Mass fraction; Thrombus age; Thrombus covered wall

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSMS; EXTENSION RATES; INTRALUMINAL THROMBUS; MASS FRACTION; PEELING TEST; RATE DEPENDENT; THROMBUS AGE; THROMBUS-COVERED WALL;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIA; COLLAGEN; DISSECTION; ELASTIN; GLYCOPROTEINS;

BLOOD VESSELS;

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA DISSECTING ANEURYSM; AORTA WALL; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTERY THROMBOSIS AGE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DRY WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS FRACTION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

DISSECTION; INTRALUMINAL THROMBUS; MASS FRACTION; THROMBUS AGE; THROMBUS-COVERED WALL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FIBRIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84890860159     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: 18732380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.10.027     Document Type: Article

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