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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2016 Sep 13;45(3):644–655. doi: 10.1007/s10439-016-1725-0

TABLE 1.

Wall Shear Stress and Circumferential Wall Stress of Implanted Vein Grafts Following Exposure to Various Flow Conditions

Day Wall Shear Stress (dynes/cm2) Mean Circumferential Wall Stress (x 106 dynes/cm2)
High Flow Low Flow Intermediate Flow High Flow Low Flow Intermediate Flow
Peak Mean Peak Mean Peak Mean
0.08 23.4 ± 2.4 12.0 ± 1.2 4.4 ± 0.7 1.2 ± 0.2 21.0 ± 2.9 9.0 ± 1.2 1.55 ± 0.34 1.44 ± 0.27 1.66 ± 0.28
1 20.0 ± 1.5 10.3 ± 0.8 4.3 ± 0.6 1.3 ± 0.2 29.1 ± 2.2 12.5 ± 1.0 1.81 ± 0..26 1.43 ± 0.29 1.41 ± 0.21
3 26.0 ± 4.3 13.4 ± 2.2 5.2 ± 1.1 1.5 ± 0.3 31.7 ± 4.7 13.7 ± 2.2 1.33 ± 0.28 1.34 ± 0.32 1.13 ± 0.32
7 29.6 ± 3.3 15.2 ± 1.7 9.3 ± 2.6 2.7 ± 0.8 24.8 ± 0.7 10.7 ± 0.3 0.59 ± 0.17 0.70 ± 0.20 0.81 ± 0.18
14 21.1 ± 4.8 10.9 ± 2.5 6.4 ± 2.3 1.9 ± 0.7 23.3 ± 2.1 10.0 ± 0.9 0.54 ± 0.24 0.88 ± 0.33 0.60 ± 0.14
28 16.0 ± 2.0 8.2 ± 1.0 3.9 ± 1.4 1.1 ± 0.4 13.6 ± 0.5 5.9 ± 0.2 0.48 ± 0.10 0.76 ± 0.12 0.82 ± 0.11

Data: Average ± SEM