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SynthesisScientific reports2017

Association of wall shear stress with intracranial aneurysm rupture: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Geng Zhou, Yueqi Zhu, Yanling Yin, Ming Su, Minghua Li

Erratum issuedOpen access · goldAbstract readMeta-AnalysisSystematic Review
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Synthesis in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 48 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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48citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.3field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

48 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 116 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. What does computational fluid dynamics tell us about intracranial aneurysms? A meta-analysis and critical review.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2020
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  4. Vascular mechanical forces and vascular diseases.Journal of advanced research · 2026
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  11. On the Numerical Evaluation of Wall Shear Stress Using the Finite Element Method.International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering · 2025
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  18. Computational fluid dynamics and shape analysis enhance aneurysm rupture risk stratification.International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Geng ZhouDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Yueqi ZhuDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China.
Yanling YinDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA, Beijing, China.
Ming SuShandong Academy of Chinese Medicine, 7 West Yan Zi Shan Road, Lixia, Jinan, China.
Minghua LiDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People's Hospital, Shanghai, China. liminghua12@163.com.
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital · CNShandong Academy of Chinese Medicine · CNShanghai Jiao Tong University · CNThe Military General Hospital of Beijing PLA · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To evaluate the relationship between wall shear stress (WSS) magnitude and cerebral aneurysm rupture and provide new insight into the disparate computational fluid dynamics (CFD) findings concerning the role of WSS in intracranial aneurysm (IA) rupture. A systematic electronic database (PubMed, Medline, Springer, and EBSCO) search was conducted for all accessible published articles up to July 1, 2016, with no restriction on the publication year. Abstracts, full-text manuscripts, and the reference lists of retrieved articles were analyzed. Random effects meta-analysis was used to pool the complication rates across studies. Twenty-two studies containing CFD data on 1257 patients with aneurysms were included in the analysis. A significantly higher rate of low WSS (0-1.5 Pa) was found in ruptured aneurysms (odds ratio [OR] 2.17; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.73-2.62). The pooled analyses across 14 studies with low WSS showed significantly lower mean WSS (0.64 vs. 1.4 Pa) (p = 0.037) in the ruptured group. This meta-analysis provides evidence that decreased local WSS may be an important predictive parameter of IA rupture.

Indexed as

Stress, MechanicalAneurysm, RupturedHumansIntracranial AneurysmShear Strength

Identifiers

PMID28706287
PMCPMC5509692
OpenAlexW2729439452

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