ArticleJournal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR2010
The effect of aging on deformations of the superficial femoral artery resulting from hip and knee flexion: potential clinical implications.
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- Comparison of morphometric, structural, mechanical, and physiologic characteristics of human superficial femoral and popliteal arteries.Acta biomaterialia · 2021Article
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- Morphologic Changes of the Femoropopliteal Arterial Segment with Knee Flexion after Endovascular Therapy.Annals of vascular diseases · 2019Article
- A Lagrangian cylindrical coordinate system for characterizing dynamic surface geometry of tubular anatomic structures.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2018Article
- Cross-sectional pinching in human femoropopliteal arteries due to limb flexion, and stent design optimization for maximum cross-sectional opening and minimum intramural stresses.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2018Article
- Validating Fatigue Safety Factor Calculation Methods for Cardiovascular Stents.Journal of biomechanical engineering · 2018Article
- Nitinol Stents in the Femoropopliteal Artery: A Mechanical Perspective on Material, Design, and Performance.Annals of biomedical engineering · 2018Review
- Effect of aging on mechanical stresses, deformations, and hemodynamics in human femoropopliteal artery due to limb flexion.Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology · 2018Article
- Limb flexion-induced axial compression and bending in human femoropopliteal artery segments.Journal of vascular surgery · 2018Article
- The choice of a constitutive formulation for modeling limb flexion-induced deformations and stresses in the human femoropopliteal arteries of different ages.Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeVessel deformations have been implicated in endoluminal device fractures, and therefore better understanding of these deformations could be valuable for device regulation, evaluation, and design. The purpose of this study is to describe geometric changes of the superficial femoral artery (SFA) resulting from hip and knee flexion in older subjects. MATERIALS AND
methodsThe SFAs of seven healthy subjects aged 50-70 years were imaged with magnetic resonance angiography with the legs straight and with hip and knee flexion. From geometric models constructed from these images, axial, twisting, and bending deformations were quantified.
resultsThere was greater shortening in the bottom third of the SFA than in the top two thirds (top, 5.9% +/- 3.0%; middle, 6.7% +/- 2.1%; bottom, 8.1% +/- 2.0% [mean +/- SD]; P < .05), significant twist in all sections (top, 1.3 degrees /cm +/- 0.8; middle, 1.8 degrees /cm +/- 1.1; bottom, 2.1 degrees /cm +/- 1.3), and greater curvature increase in the bottom third than in the top two thirds (top, 0.15 cm(-1) +/- 0.06; middle, 0.09 cm(-1) +/- 0.07; bottom, 0.41 cm(-1) +/- 0.22; P < .001).
conclusionsThe SFA tends to deform more in the bottom third than in the other sections, likely because of less musculoskeletal constraint distal to the adductor canal and vicinity of knee flexion. The SFAs of these older subjects curve off axis with normal joint flexion, probably resulting from known loss of arterial elasticity with age. This slackening of the vessel enables a method for noninvasive quantification of in vivo SFA strain, which may be valuable for treatment planning and device design. In addition, the spatially resolved arterial deformations quantified in this study may be useful for commercial and regulatory device evaluation.
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