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Law of Laplace

  • Westerhof N
  • Stergiopulos N
  • Noble M
  • et al.
Springer International Publishing, (2019), 51-55
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91932-4_9
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Abstract

The law of Laplace relates transmural pressure with wall stress. In a (cylindrical) blood vessel and in a (spherical) heart model there exists a simple relation between pressure and circumferential wall stress. The law gives the average stress over the wall, thus how...

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Westerhof, N., Stergiopulos, N., Noble, M. I. M., & Westerhof, B. E. (2019). Law of Laplace. In Snapshots of Hemodynamics (pp. 51–55). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91932-4_9

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