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Table 1 Patient geometry characteristics.

From: An assessment of intra-patient variability on observed relationships between wall shear stress and plaque progression in coronary arteries

 

1

2

3

Vessel

Left main + LAD

LAD

LAD

No. side branches

3

2

5

Vessel length (mm)

57

34

57

Mean inlet velocity (m/s)

0.18

0.26

0.2

Baseline plaque burden (%)

49

37.3

49.7

Follow-up plaque burden (%)

41.8

42.6

58.1

Baseline lumen area (mm2)

6.28

6.62

7.3

Follow-up lumen area (mm2)

7.95

5.67

6.83

  1. Mean inlet velocity is the time averaged inlet velocity. Plaque burden is defined as vessel cross-sectional area (CSA) minus luminal CSA divided by luminal CSA. Values for lumen area and plaque burden area measured at each VH-IVUS image and averaged over the entire vessel.