Bicuspid Aortic Valve-Associated Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm: Patient-Specific Finite Element Analysis.

CONCLUSIONS: To the present authors' knowledge, this was the first patient-specific BAV aTAA model based on surgical specimens to be developed. Surgical specimens serve as the 'gold standard' for determining wall stress to validate models based on in-vivo imaging data alone. Regions of maximal wall stress may indicate sites most prone to rupture, and are crucial for evaluating rupture risk based on the wall stress/strength relationship. PMID: 27997777 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Heart Valve Disease - Category: Cardiology Tags: J Heart Valve Dis Source Type: research