Table 3. Uniaxial tensile test force-displacement data and statistical analysis of the patients with ascending aortic aneurysm and control group (cadaver).
| Ei (MPa) (Elasticity modulus for first region slope of stress-strain curves) |
p | Es (MPa) (Elasticity modulus for linear region slope of stress-strain curves close to rupture) |
p | |||
| Mean | Min-Max | Mean | Min-Max | |||
| Longitudinal (n=37) | 1.0833000 | 0.38000-2.20770 | 3.3336500 | 1.15190-7.07000 | ||
| Patients: 1.17/ Control: 1.07 | 0.061 | Patients: 3.70 / Control: 3.97 | 0.933 | |||
| Circumflex (n=38) | 1.2751500 | 0.43490-2.76850 | 3.4437000 | 1.33010-7.04280 | ||
| Patients: 1.41 / Control: 1.09 | Patients: 3.95 / Control: 3.38 | |||||
| Great curvature (n=42) | 1.1904500 | 0.38000-2.7685 | 3.4437000 | 1.79700-7.07000 | ||
| Patients: 1.37 / Control: 1.12 | 0.203 | Patients: 3.81 / Control: 4.15 | 0.407 | |||
| Small curvature (n=33) | 1.1500000 | 0.51910-2.20770 | 3.3336500 | 1.15190-7.04280 | ||
| Patients: 1.22 / Control: 1.03 | Patients: 3.86 / Control: 3.12 | |||||
| Patients (n=49) | 1.2035500 | 0.51910-2.24010 | 0.028 | 3.4229500 | 1.15190-7.07000 | 0.609 |
| Control (n=26) | 1.1261500 | 0.38000-2.76850 | 3.4038500 | 1.24100-6.63610 | ||
| Ei: The first regions of the curves; Es: The second elastic modulus based on the slopes of the linear region close to rupturing; p value <0.05 significant. | ||||||