Aortic-valve mediated wall shear stress is heterogeneous and predicts regional aortic elastic fiber thinning in bicuspid aortic valve-associated aortopathy

To investigate an association between the magnitude of flow-mediated aortic wall shear stress (WSS) and medial wall histopathology in bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) patients with aortopathy.

Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - June 12, 2018 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Emilie Bollache, David G. Guzzardi, Samaneh Sattari, Katherine E. Olsen, Elena S. Di Martino, S. Chris Malaisrie, Pim van Ooij, Jeremy Collins, James Carr, Patrick M. McCarthy, Michael Markl, Alex J. Barker, Paul W.M. Fedak Source Type: research