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This study aims to investigate this hemodynamic correlation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>The aneurysmal wall surface at the Pmax areas was intraoperatively evaluated using a fluid flow formula under pulsatile blood flow conditions in 23 patients with 23 saccular middle cerebral artery (MCA) bifurcation aneurysms (16 unruptured and 7 ruptured). The pressure difference (Pd) at the Pmax areas was calculated by subtracting the average pressure (Pave) from the Pmax and normalized by dividing this by the dynamic pressure at the aneurysm inlet side. The wall shear stress (WSS) was also calculated at the Pmax areas, aneurysm dome, and parent artery. These hemodynamic parameters were used to validate the correlation with TWRs in unruptured MCA aneurysms. The characteristic hemodynamic parameters at the rupture points in ruptured MCA aneurysms were then determined.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>In 13 of 16 unruptured aneurysms (81.2%), Pmax areas were identified that corresponded to TWRs. In 5 of the 7 ruptured cerebral aneurysms, the Pmax areas coincided with the rupture point. At these areas, the Pd values were not higher than those of the TWRs in unruptured cerebral aneurysms; however, minimum WSS, time-averaged WSS, and normalized WSS at the rupture point were significantly lower than those of the TWRs in unruptured aneurysms (p &lt; 0.01).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title><jats:p>At the Pmax area of TWRs, decreased WSS appears to be the crucial hemodynamic parameter that indicates the risk of aneurysm rupture.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2018.12.jns182897","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,4,9]],"date-time":"2019-04-09T19:56:12Z","timestamp":1554839772000},"page":"1116-1122","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":30,"title":["Decreased wall shear stress at high-pressure areas predicts the rupture point in ruptured intracranial aneurysms"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"132","author":[{"given":"Tomoaki","family":"Suzuki","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo;"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher J.","family":"Stapleton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthew J.","family":"Koch","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kazutoshi","family":"Tanaka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Soichiro","family":"Fujimura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takashi","family":"Suzuki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo;"},{"name":"Department of Innovation for Medical Information Technology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takeshi","family":"Yanagisawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Makoto","family":"Yamamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yukihiko","family":"Fujii","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Brain Research Institute, Niigata University, Niigata;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuichi","family":"Murayama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Aman B.","family":"Patel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"key":"b1","series-title":"J Vasc Res","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"463","DOI":"10.1159\/000339151","article-title":"The effect of pressure-induced mechanical stretch on vascular wall differential gene expression","volume":"49","author":"Anwar MA","year":"2012","unstructured":"Anwar MA, Shalhoub J, Lim CS, Gohel MS, Davies AH: The effect of pressure-induced mechanical stretch on vascular wall differential gene expression. 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