Biofluid Mechanics Blood Flow in Large Vessels [Paperback]

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium Biofluid Mechanics and Biorheology. June 25-28, 1989, MunichClinical Consideration-Clinical Studies.- Hemodynamically Induced Atrophic Lesions of Atherosclerosis.- What Protects Arm Arteries from Atherosclerosis?.- Analysis of Transcranial Doppler Waves: Pathophysiology of Unilateral Stenoses of the Carotid Artery.- Cerebral Hemodynamic Evaluation by Means of Transcranial Doppler Sonography.- Fluid Dynamical Mechanism of Anacrotic Notch in the Great Arteries.- Radiogrametric Analysis of Carotid Bifurcation: Hemodynamic-Atherogenetic Repercussions on Surgical Patients.- Heart Valve Studies.- Modified Gorlin Equation for the Prediction of Stenotic Valve Orifice Area: An In Vitro Study on a Bioprosthesis.- A Ten Times Enlarged Model of Artificial Heart Valve Flow.- Model Studies at Mechanical Aortic Heart Valve Prostheses in Steady and Physiological Pulsatile Flow.- Direct Measurement of Aortic and Vena Caval Flow to Evaluate the Effect of Vasodilators in Experimental Acute mitral regurgitation.- Echocardiographic and Flow Visualization Studies of the Mechanism for Systolic Anterior Motion of the Mitral Valve In Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.- Ultrasound Studies.- The Potential Importance of Arterial Wall Properties and Blood Flow in Relation to Atherogenesis in Essential Hypertension.- Reliability and Problems of Doppler-Sonography in the Assessment of Carotid Stenoses.- The On-line Assessment of Blood Flow Characteristics During Cerebro-vascular Examinations.- A Method of Measuring the Peak Flow-Rate and the Regurgitant Volume of Regurgitation.- Characterization of Pulmonary Artery Blood Velocity Patterns in Lambs.- Detection of Very Early Atherosclerosis by Duplex Sonography.- Normal and Stenotic Blood Flow Velocities in Human Left Coronary Artery Measured by an 80 Channel 20 MHz Pulsed Doppler Velocimeter.- Clinical Studies II.- Von Willebrand Factor Antigen as a Marker of Vascular Injury in Patients with Essential Hyperlã-