Advancements in identifying biomechanical determinants for abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture

Vascular

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 65-77

  Kontopodis, Nikolaos ^a   Metaxa, Eleni ^b   Papaharilaou, Yannis ^b   Tavlas, Emmanouil ^a   Tsetis, Dimitrios ^a   Ioannou, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic aneurysm; biomechanics; peak wall stress; rupture risk; wall properties; wall strength

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; GELATINASE A;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTERIAL WALL ELASTICITY; ARTERIAL WALL STRENGTH; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER MODEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLUID STRUCTURE INTERACTION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MECHANICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WALL STRESS; ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD FLOW; COMPLICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISEASE COURSE; ELASTICITY; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

EID: 84920996796     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: 1708539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1708538114532084     Document Type: Review

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