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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 11.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2017 Feb 21;55:92–98. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.02.003

Table 2.

Pulmonary artery thickness and ECM content for control and CTEPH groups

Group Control CTEPH
Total thickness (mm) 0.73 ± 0.02 1.11 ± 0.06*
Media thickness (mm) 0.42 ± 0.03 0.67 ± 0.05*
Collagen content (%) 8.6 ± 1.4 27.0 ± 4.4*
Elastin content (%) 38.8 ± 3.6 12.6 ± 4.4*
*

p<0.05 vs. control