{"id":178482,"date":"2023-12-17T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unstable-fluttering-predicts-aortic-aneurysm-with-98-accuracy"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:24:14","slug":"unstable-fluttering-predicts-aortic-aneurysm-with-98-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/unstable-fluttering-predicts-aortic-aneurysm-with-98-accuracy","title":{"rendered":"Unstable \u2018fluttering\u2019 predicts aortic aneurysm with 98% accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unstable-fluttering-predicts-aortic-aneurysm-with-98-accuracy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no symptoms until it ruptures.<\/p>\n<p>In the new study, the researchers forecasted abnormal aortic growth by measuring subtle \u201cfluttering\u201d in a patient\u2019s blood vessel. As blood flows through the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/aorta\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aorta<\/a>, it can cause the vessel wall to flutter, similar to how a banner ripples in the breeze. While stable flow predicts normal, natural growth, unstable flutter is highly predictive of future abnormal growth and potential rupture, the researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>Called the \u201cflutter instability parameter\u201d (FIP), the new metric predicted future aneurysm with 98% accuracy on average three years after the FIP was first measured. To calculate a personalized FIP, patients only need a single 4D flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University researchers have developed the first physics-based metric to predict whether or not a person might someday suffer an aortic aneurysm, a deadly condition that often causes no symptoms until it ruptures. In the new study, the researchers forecasted abnormal aortic growth by measuring subtle \u201cfluttering\u201d in a patient\u2019s blood vessel. As blood flows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}