Biomechanics of Coronary Atherosclerotic Plaque

Part 1: Biology, Physiopathology, Hemodynamics, Myogenic Responses and Clinical Intravascular Imaging of the Coronary Vascular Wall1. Biomechanical Regulation of Endothelial Function in Atherosclerosis2. Molecular mechanisms of the vascular responses to hemodynamic forces3. Advanced atherosclerotic plaques in animal models versus human lesions: key elements to translation4. Modeling the Glagov's compensatory enlargement of human coronary atherosclerotic plaque5. Measuring coronary arterial compliance and vasomotor response in clinical and research settings6. Coronary intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography imaging and clinical contexts in coronary hemodynamics7. The interaction of biochemical, biomechanical and clinical factors of coronary disease: review and outlook Part 2: Modeling Blood Flow in Arterial Branches and Bifurcations8. Local blood flow parameters and atherosclerosis in coronary artery bifurcations9. Effect of regional analysis methods on assessing the association between wall shear stress and coronary artery disease progression in the clinical setting10. Hemodynamic disturbance due to serial stenosis in human coronary bifurcations: A computational fluid dynamics study11. Hemodynamic perturbations due to the presence of stents12. A new reduced-order model to assess the true fractional flow reserve of a left main coronary artery stenosis with downstream lesions and collateral circulations: an in vitro study Part 3: Fluid-Structure Interaction, Stress Distribution and Plaque Rupture in Arterial Wall13. In vitro, primarily microfluidic models for atherosclerosis14. Prediction of the coronary plaque growth and vulnerability change by using patient-specific 3D FSI models based on intravascular ultrasound and optical coherence tomography follow-up data15. Atheromatous plaque initiation and growth: a multiphysical process explored by an in-silico mass transport model16. Emergent biomechanical factors predicting vulnerable coronary atherosclerotic plaque rupture17. Microcalcifications and plaque rupture18. Identification of coronary plaque mechanical properties from ex-vivo testing19. Importance of residual stress and basal tone in healthy and pathological human coronary arteries Part 4: Imaging Inflammatory Biomarkers for in vivo Intravascular Plaque Characterization20. Intravascular ultrasound imaging of human coronary atherosclerotic plaque: novel morpho-elastic biomarkers of instability21. Magnetic resonance elastography for arterial wall characterization22. Noninvasive ultrafast ultrasound for imaging the coronary vasculature and assessing the arterial wall's biomechanics23. Pulse wave imaging for the mechanical assessment of atherosclerotic plaques Part 5: Stenting, Coated Balloon, Drug Elution Systems and Modelling24. Structure-function relation in the coronary artery tree: theory and applications in interventional cardiology25. Sequential technique for the stenting of a coronary bifurcation: the re-proximal optimizing technique strategy26. Modeling the stent deployment in coronary arteries and coronary bifurcations27. The coated balloon protocol: An emergent clinical technique28. Endovascular drug delivery and drug-elution systems