Ann NY Acad Sci: Engineered arterial models to correlate blood flow to tissue biological response

Martorell J, Santoma P, Molins JJ, Garcia-Granada AA, Bea JA, Edelman ER, and Balcells M. Engineered arterial models to correlate blood flow to tissue biological response.

Summary: This paper reviews how biomedical engineers, in collaboration with physicians, biologists, chemists, physicists, and mathematicians, have developed models to explain how the impact of vascular interventions on blood flow predicts subsequent vascular repair. These models have become increasingly sophisticated and precise, propelling us toward optimization of cardiovascular therapeutics in general and personalizing treatments for patients with cardiovascular disease.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1254 (2012) 51–56.

 

 

March 1, 2012