Characterization of blood flow patterns and endothelial shear stress during flow-mediated dilation.
Francisco Morales-AcunaLuis OchoaCarolina ValenciaAlvaro N GurovichPublished in: Clinical physiology and functional imaging (2019)
Peak FMD dilation in a young healthy population is triggered mostly by high-ESS under turbulent flow conditions. Due to the pulsatile nature of blood flow and the appearance of a turbulent pattern during FMD, ESS should be estimated by Womersley's approximation rather than Poiseuille's law.
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