Aortic dissection (AD) is one of the fatal and complex conditions. Since there is a lack of a
specific treatment guideline for type-B AD, a better understanding of patient-specific …

In-vitro models of the systemic circulation have gained a lot of interest for fundamental
understanding of cardiovascular dynamics and for applied hemodynamic research. In this …

The heat transfer mechanism inside the human aorta may be related to the physiological
function and lesion formation of the aortic wall. The objective of this study was to acquire the …

The increasingly demonstrated association of wall enhancement (WE) measured by
vascular wall imaging with the instability/rupture of intracranial aneurysms (IAs) implies the …

The improvement in congenital heart disease (CHD) treatment and management has
increased the life expectancy in infants. However, the long-term efficacy is difficult to assess …

Abstract Accounting for 1.5% of thoracic trauma, blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) is a rare
disease with a high mortality rate that nowadays is treated mostly via thoracic endovascular …

Numerical simulations of the blood flow inside a patient-specific thoracic aorta in presence
of coarctation are considered. Different grades of severity of the coarctation are obtained by …

Purpose Patients presenting with coarctation of the aorta (CoA) may also suffer from co-
existing transverse arch hypoplasia (TAH). Depending on the risks associated with the …

Aortic coarctation is the term used for narrowing of the aorta that can result in a range of
cardiovascular complications, such as hypertension and heart failure, making it a condition …

Introduction Generalized arterial calcification of infancy (GACI) is a rare cause of infantile
heart failure and systemic hypertension with a poor prognosis, characterized by extensive …