title: Patient based abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture risk prediction combining clinical visualizing modalities with fluid structure interaction numerical simulations.
abstract: Fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations of patient-specific fusiform non-ruptured and contained ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) geometries were conducted. The goals were: (1) to test the ability of our FSI methodology to predict the location of rupture, by correlating the high wall stress regions with the rupture location, (2) estimate the state of the pathological condition by calculating the ruptured potential index (RPI) of the AAA and (3) predict the disease progression by comparing healthy and pathological aortas.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Engineering, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-8181, USA.
authors.forename: Michalis
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xenos
authors.forename: Suraj
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rambhia
authors.forename: Yared
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Alemu
authors.forename: Shmuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Einav
authors.forename: John J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Ricotta
authors.forename: Nicos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Labropoulos
authors.forename: Apostolos
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tassiopoulos
authors.forename: Danny
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bluestein
mesh_terms: D017544:Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D001019:Aortic Rupture / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000150:complications; D018450:Disease Progression; D006801:Humans; D009716:Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted; D012039:Regional Blood Flow; D012307:Risk Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed