Intimal Thickness Is not Associated With Wall Shear Stress Patterns in the Human Right Coronary Artery
Autor: | Jerry G. Myers, Anil K. Joshi, C. Ross Ethier, Matadial Ojha, Jagdish Butany, Richard L. Leask |
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Rok vydání: | 2004 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male genetic structures Hemodynamics Flow modeling Wall shear medicine.artery Shear stress medicine Humans business.industry Myocardium Models Cardiovascular Heart Anatomy Middle Aged Coronary Vessels Arterial tree Coronary arteries medicine.anatomical_structure Regional Blood Flow Pulsatile Flow Right coronary artery Female Autopsy Stress Mechanical Tunica Intima Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Wall thickness business |
Zdroj: | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology. 24:2408-2413 |
ISSN: | 1524-4636 1079-5642 |
DOI: | 10.1161/01.atv.0000147118.97474.4b |
Popis: | Objective— Low wall shear stress has been implicated in atherogenesis throughout the arterial tree, including the right coronary artery (RCA). The objective of this study was to determine the level of covariation of intimal thickness and wall shear stress in the human RCA. Methods and Results— Postmortem histological measurements of intimal thickness were compared with wall shear stresses calculated from computational flow modeling in 4 human right coronary arteries. A statistically significant correlation between intimal thickness and wall shear stress was found in only 1 of the 4 arteries studied. Conclusion— Wall shear stress does not appear to be related to intimal thickness in the 4 RCAs studied. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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