Jiří Burša

TL;DR: The role of the intraluminal thrombus (ILT) in abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is controversial, and it is still not clear if an ILT increases or decreases AAA rupture risk as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The structure and mechanical properties of adventitia are well designed to protect the media from axial and circumferential overloads, which explains the origin of wall anisotropy seen at this strain level.

TL;DR: The data demonstrated that the biomechanical rupture risk assessment is superior to maximal diameter in predicting AAA rupture up to 9 months ahead and significantly decreases the false-positive rate.

TL;DR: In this first study of anisotropy in AAA wall failure properties using paired comparisons, the strength in circumferential orientation was found to be higher than in axial orientation.

TL;DR: The results show that consideration of realistic properties of arterial wall in the model is decisive for the stress evaluation; assignment of properties of fibrous tissue even to media and adventitia layers as done in some studies may induce up to eightfold overestimation of peak stress.