Vascular Mechanics and Pathology

By Mano J. Thubrikar

Book Overview

The purpose of the book is to bring the two disciplines - vascular mechanics and pathology - together. In addition, the book bridges the gap in our knowledge and enhances engineering applications in medicine. Opening new doors for interdisciplinary research, this book establishes a correlation between vascular mechanics and pathology that could lead to the reduction of vascular diseases, as well as the development of new treatments. This cutting-edge work presents the use of veins as arterial grafts and discusses the role of vein valves in graft stenosis. The book illustrates aneurysm formation, growth, and rupture, using pressure vessel principles. This new work details the investigation of, amongst other topics, aortic dissection, showing for the first time that the aortic root mechanics plays a vital role in the development of this pathology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387338160
• ISBN13: 9780387338163
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"