Biofluid Mechanics: Blood Flow in Large Vessels

Front Matter....Pages I-XXIV
Hemodynamically Induced Atrophic Lesions of Atherosclerosis....Pages 1-6
What Protects Arm Arteries from Atherosclerosis?....Pages 7-16
Analysis of Transcranial Doppler Waves: Pathophysiology of Unilateral Stenoses of the Carotid Artery....Pages 17-23
Cerebral Hemodynamic Evaluation by Means of Transcranial Doppler Sonography....Pages 25-32
Fluid Dynamical Mechanism of Anacrotic Notch in the Great Arteries....Pages 33-41
Radiogrametric Analysis of Carotid Bifurcation: Hemodynamic-Atherogenetic Repercussions on Surgical Patients....Pages 45-56
Modified Gorlin Equation for the Prediction of Stenotic Valve Orifice Area: An In Vitro Study on a Bioprosthesis....Pages 57-62
A Ten Times Enlarged Model of Artificial Heart Valve Flow....Pages 63-73
Model Studies at Mechanical Aortic Heart Valve Prostheses in Steady and Physiological Pulsatile Flow....Pages 75-89
Direct Measurement of Aortic and Vena Caval Flow to Evaluate the Effect of Vasodilators in Experimental Acute mitral regurgitation....Pages 91-100
Echocardiographic and Flow Visualization Studies of the Mechanism for Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve In Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy....Pages 101-108
The Potential Importance of Arterial Wall Properties and Blood Flow in Relation to Atherogenesis in Essential Hypertension....Pages 109-112
Reliability and Problems of Doppler-Sonography in the Assessment of Carotid Stenoses....Pages 113-119
The On-line Assessment of Blood Flow Characteristics During Cerebro-vascular Examinations....Pages 121-124
A Method of Measuring the Peak Flow-Rate and the Regurgitant Volume of Regurgitation....Pages 125-129
Characterization of Pulmonary Artery Blood Velocity Patterns in Lambs....Pages 131-140
Detection of Very Early Atherosclerosis by Duplex Sonography....Pages 141-145
Normal and Stenotic Blood Flow Velocities in Human Left Coronary Artery Measured by an 80 Channel 20 MHz Pulsed Doppler Velocimeter....Pages 147-154
Von Willebrand Factor Antigen as a Marker of Vascular Injury in Patients with Essential Hypertension....Pages 155-158
Hemodynamic and Pathomorphologic Changes of the Aorto-Iliac Arteries Following Unilateral Above Knee Amputation....Pages 159-165
Intraoperative Evaluation of Blood Velocity Waveforms in Different Types of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts-Sequential Saphenous Vein Graft and Internal Mammary Artery Graft....Pages 167-173
Hydraulic Conductivity and Shear Dependent Albumin Permeability of Cultured Endothelial Cell Monolayers....Pages 175-181
Cellular Recognition and Transduction of Fluid Mechanical Shear Stress Signals....Pages 183-191
Electrical Impedance of the Carotid Artery in Response to Various Types of Stress....Pages 193-200
Morphometry of the Brain Arterial Tree....Pages 201-208
Microscopic Visualization of Flow in Rat Cerebral Arteries: Biofluid Dynamical Study on Experimentally Induced Aneurysm....Pages 209-216
Effect of the Transmural Pressure on LDL and Albumin Transport and Distribution Across the Intact Arterial Wall....Pages 217-221
Areas of High Shear Show Sparing of Lipid Deposition in Hypercholesterolemic Rabbits with Constricted Aortas....Pages 223-229
Investigations Concerning Localization of Induced Thrombus Formation at Arteriolar Bifurcations....Pages 231-236
Quantification and Cine Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Blood Flow....Pages 237-240
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Cardiac Blood Flow: An In Vitro Study....Pages 241-247
MRI Flow Measurements by a Dynamic Frequency Variation and a flowing Slice Selection....Pages 249-255
Visualization of Pulsatile Flow in a Modelled Arterial Anastomosis....Pages 257-264
Varicose Meandering: An Indirect Sign of Locally Increased Arterial Flow Transmitted by Arteriovenous Communications (AVCs)?....Pages 265-274
Flow Separation Opposite A Side Branch....Pages 275-283
The Influence of External Carotid Artery Stenoses on Internal Carotid Artery Flow-An Experimental Investigation....Pages 285-288
Blood flow Simulations in a Cast of the Aortic Bifurcation....Pages 289-299
Wall Shear in a Compliant Cast of a Human Artery Perfused With a Non-Newtonian Fluid, and Its Correlation With Intimal Thickness....Pages 301-305
Flow Studies in a Rigid T-Junction Model with a Non-Newtonian Fluid Using a 3-D Laser-Doppler-Anemometer....Pages 307-320
Evaluation of Two Fiber Laser Doppler Velocimeter....Pages 321-327
Fluid Flow Through Distensible Models of the Carotid Artery Bifurcation....Pages 329-334
Separated Flow Demonstrated by Digitized In Vitro Cineangiography Compared with LDV....Pages 335-342
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of the Performance and Shear Stresses in a Nutating Centrifugal Blood Pump....Pages 343-349
Effects of n-3 Fatty Acid Supplementation on the Rheological Behavior of Human Blood Measured Ex Vivo....Pages 351-355
The Role of Hemorheology in Cerebral Vasospasm Following Subarachnoid Hemorrhage (SAH)....Pages 357-365
Rheological Analogs for Human Blood in Large Vessels....Pages 367-374
Computer Controlled Laser Doppler Velocimeter for Measuring In Vitro Red Cell and Platelet Distributions....Pages 375-379
The Influence of Rheological Properties of Test Fluids on the Flow Pattern Inside the Artificial Ventricle (Type Rostock) and in the Aortic Outflow Tract....Pages 381-389
Tomographic Analysis of the Effect of Hematocrit on the Distribution of Erythrocytes in Blood Flow in Glass Capillaries of Various Diameters....Pages 391-399
Plasma Induced Surface Modification for Medical Application....Pages 401-408
A Study of Predicted and Experimental Wall Collapse in Models of Highly Stenotic Arteries....Pages 409-416
Pressure-Flow Relationships in Partially Occluded Flexible Tubes....Pages 417-423
Flow in a Collapsible Tube Connected to Rigid Pipes....Pages 425-431
Normal Range of Volume Elastic Modulus in Finger Arteries Determined Indirectly by Electric Impedance-Cuff....Pages 433-441
Renal Arterial Stenosis in Renal Transplantation: A Mathematical Pathogenetic Hypothesis and Its Possible Clinical Implications....Pages 443-445
A Mathematical Approach to the Development of Arteriosclerosis in Dialysis Patients....Pages 447-450
The Role of Wave Reflections in the Ascending Aorta of Man....Pages 451-454
Assessment of the Problem of Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow Through Three-Dimensional Bifurcations....Pages 455-462
Coronary Blood Flow....Pages 463-470
Non-Newtonian Blood Flow Simulation and Wall Shear Stress in an Arterial Bifurcation....Pages 471-477
Comparison of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Blood Flow in Stenotic Vessels using Numerical Simulation....Pages 479-485
The Application of Finite Elements Method in the Analysis of Blood Circulation....Pages 487-492
Flows Induced by Moving Boundaries and Applications in Biofluid-Mechanics....Pages 493-499
Numerical Simulation of Blood Flow Through Branches....Pages 501-511
Atherosclerotic Plaques and the Three Dimensional Distribution of Wall Shear Stress-A Numerical Model Study....Pages 513-519
Phasic Waveforms of Coronary Arterial and Venous Blood Flow Predicted by a Numerical Model of the Coronary Circulation....Pages 521-532
Membrane Phospholipid Metabolism in Sheared Endothelial Cells....Pages 533-533
Laser in Biomedical Research, Analysis and Diagnostics....Pages 534-534
Problems in the Application of Cardiovascular Models....Pages 535-535
Mononuclear Cells Adherence to Aortic Endothelium. The Effect of Transmural Pressure....Pages 536-536
The Influence of the Pulsatility and Shear Rate Changes on the Blood Viscosity in Large Vessels....Pages 537-537
A Model Fluid for Blood Using Polystyrene Microspheres....Pages 539-540
Arterial and Venous Whole Blood- and Plasma Viscosity in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)....Pages 541-541
An Integral-Momentum Approach for the Measurement of Size-Effects in Stenosis for Different Diseases....Pages 542-542
Erythrocytic Deformability in Cystic Fibrosis....Pages 543-543
Calculation of the Velocity Profile, Flow and Wall Shear Stress in Arteries From the Pressure Gradient: Importance of Distensibility and Taper....Pages 545-546
Attenuation of Hydrodynamic Disturbances in Tapered Arterial Prostheses....Pages 547-555
Synergetics of Normal and Abnormal Reactions of the Blood In Motion: Fluid-Dynamics, Rheology and Biochemistry....Pages 557-562