Latorre, Marcos; Bersi, Matthew R.; Humphrey, Jay D.(Elsevier, 2019-08)
[EN] Uncontrolled hypertension is a major risk factor for myriad cardiovascular diseases. Among its many effects, hypertension increases central artery stiffness which in turn is both an initiator and indicator of disease. ...
Latorre, Marcos; Humphrey, Jay D.(Elsevier, 2020-08-15)
[EN] Constrained mixture models of soft tissue growth and remodeling can simulate many evolving conditions in health as well as in disease and its treatment, but they can be computationally expensive. In this paper, we ...
[EN] Biological growth and remodeling processes are necessarily time-dependent due to the finite periods needed for the material to be synthesized, deposited, degraded, and/or reorganized and, hence, so have been predominantly ...