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...Bram Trachet; Joris Bols; Gianluca De Santis; Stefaan Vandenberghe; Bart Loeys; Patrick Segers Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations allow for calculation of a detailed flow field in the mouse aorta and can thus be used to investigate a potential link between local hemodynamics and disease...

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... deformation diseases haemodynamics internal stresses patient treatment CHD great vessel anomalies computer applications circulatory hemodynamics aortic operation Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) accounts for 8%–11% of congenital heart defects affecting ∼3000–5000 patients annually...

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...Joseph T. Keyes; Darren G. Haskett; Urs Utzinger; Mohamad Azhar; Jonathan P. Vande Geest Murine models of disease are a powerful tool for researchers to gain insight into disease formation, progression, and therapies. The biomechanical indicators of diseased tissue provide a unique insight...

...Mazyar Amin; Amber G. Kunkel; Victoria P. Le; Jessica E. Wagenseil Determining arterial mechanical properties is important for understanding the work done by the heart and how it changes with cardiovascular disease. Ex vivo tests are necessary to apply various loads to the artery and obtain data...

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...Emily J. Berg; Risa J. Robinson Emphysema is a progressive lung disease that involves permanent destruction of the alveolar walls. Fluid mechanics in the pulmonary region and how they are altered with the presence of emphysema are not well understood. Much of our understanding of the flow fields...

...O. Ivanchenko; V. Ivanchenko Convection-enhanced delivery (CED) is a drug delivery technique used to target specific regions of the central nervous system (CNS) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and cancer while bypassing the blood–brain barrier (BBB). The application of CED...

... applications, such as patient-specific modeling, disease diagnosis, and tracking of age- or damage-related degradation of mechanical properties. Elasticity imaging (elastography) is a nondestructive imaging method in which the distribution of elastic properties throughout a specimen can be reconstructed from...

...H. P. Wagner; J. D. Humphrey Cerebrovascular disease continues to be responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. There is, therefore, a pressing need to understand better the biomechanics of both intracranial arteries and the extracranial arteries that feed these vessels. We used...

...N. K. C. Selvarasu; Danesh K. Tafti; Pavlos P. Vlachos Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of death in the world, making the understanding of hemodynamics and development of treatment options imperative. The most common modality for treatment of occlusive coronary artery diseases...

... that up to 87% of AVF morbidity is due to thrombus formation and over 90% of VA thrombosis originates from VNH and stenotic lesions ( 4 8 ). Hemodialysis is the treatment modality of choice for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). To ensure successful and efficient hemodialysis, a vascular...

... and pathological conditions. The two analyzed tracheal geometries, which include the first bifurcation after the carina, were obtained from computed tomography images of healthy and diseased patients, respectively. A finite element-based commercial software code was used to perform the simulations. The tracheal...

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