Vascular endothelial cells functions are modulated by shear stress at vessel wall. The presence of “abnormal” blood flow patterns can give rise to local variations from physiological wall shear stress (WSS) time histories. These variations might be risk factors that increase a vessel’s atherosusceptibility.

Volume Subject Area:
Poster Session I: Aneurysms, Atherosclerosis and Heart Valves
Topics:
Bifurcation, Computational fluid dynamics, Shear stress, Blood flow, Endothelial cells, Physiology, Risk, Vessels
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