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Table 4 Spearman’s correlation coefficients for wall shear stress parameters with secondary flow patterns

From: 4D flow CMR analysis comparing patients with anatomically shaped aortic sinus prostheses, tube prostheses and healthy subjects introducing the wall shear stress gradient: a case control study

 

WSS gradient

p

max. WSSseg

p

WSSavg

p

Bulb

–

–

–

–

–

–

AAo

0.77

< 0.01

0.52

< 0.01

0.84

0.65

dAAo

0.77

< 0.01

0.44

0.13

−0.18

0.32

Aao

0.52

< 0.01

0.20

0.27

−0.20

0.27

DD

0.51

< 0.01

0.13

0.49

0.58

0.75

DAo

–

–

–

–

–

–

  1. Spearman’s correlation coefficients for wall shear stress (WSS) parameters at all six measurement contours in the aorta with grading of secondary flow patterns
  2. Significant differences are marked in bold type