The present dataset describes the biomechanical properties of the supra-aortic trunks (brachiocephalic trunk, left common carotid artery, and left subclavian artery) and some of the visceral branches of the abdominal aorta (celiac trunk, superior mesenteric artery, and renal arteries). The specimens have been harvested from 27 adult donors during the autopsy procedure. The vessels were submitted to uniaxial biomechanical tensile tests, and values of failure stress, failure tension, and failure strain were obtained. As atherosclerosis could affect any of those vessels producing a significant reduction in their lumen, the data presented here could be of great interest to vascular surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and interventional neuroradiologists, who manipulate these arteries endovascularly. The observations gathered here are experimental evidence of the vessels’ endurance against tearing and of their deformability. Therefore this data article could also help the medical industry dedicated to the production of endovascular devices. This dataset is related to the article entitled “Left Common Carotid Artery Biomechanical Properties in Individuals over 80 years: Women Have Stiffer Vessels” published in Annals of Vascular Surgery in August 2020
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This data article describes biomechanical and histological information of abdominal aortas harvested in autopsy. Eight abdominal aorta aneurysms (AAA) and 30 normal diameter abdominal aortas were collected and submitted to an inflation test up to their rupture. This inflation procedure was part of the research entitled “Experimental study of rupture pressure and elasticity of abdominal aortic aneurysms found at autopsy”, submitted to Annals of Vascular Surgery.
The rupture borders and control samples (harvested from places other than the rupture site) were submitted to uniaxial destructive tensile test and to histological analysis. The following variables were evaluated in the biomechanical test: failure stress, failure tension and failure strain. The histological processing of the samples enabled a quantitative analysis of the percentage of coverage of collagen fibers and elastic fibers in the samples.
The present data could be reutilized because they are experimental evidence that cadaveric abdominal aortas, even when previously stressed by inflation, conserve significant resistance against tearing comparable to no previously stressed aortas described in the literature. Considering real whole cadaveric AAAs are especially scarce, this information would be a useful reference source for further in-depth research in the aortic biomechanics field.
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