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Estefanía Peña

Estefanía Peña

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
43
Citations
5986
World Ranking
1753
National Ranking
21

Overview

Estefanía Peña is affiliated with the University of Zaragoza in Spain. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a significant focus on Biomedical Engineering, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Surgery. Additional specialties include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientific work of Estefanía Peña encompasses a variety of main topics related to cardiovascular health and biomechanics. These include:

  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
  • Cardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Aortic Disease and Treatment Approaches
  • Aortic aneurysm repair treatments

Recent publications by Estefanía Peña demonstrate an ongoing engagement with mechanobiological and pharmacological aspects of cardiovascular medicine. Selected papers include:

  • Mathematical modelling of endovascular drug delivery: Balloons versus stents, 2022, International Journal of Pharmaceutics
  • Influence of vessel curvature and plaque composition on drug transport in the arterial wall following drug-eluting stent implantation, 2021, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
  • Effects of the Haemodynamic Stimulus on the Location of Carotid Plaques Based on a Patient-Specific Mechanobiological Plaque Atheroma Formation Model, 2021, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • How does stent expansion alter drug transport properties of the arterial wall?, 2020, Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
  • Fabrication of human myocardium using multidimensional modelling of engineered tissues, 2022, Biofabrication

Estefanía Peña collaborates frequently with several researchers. Notable coauthors include:

  • Myriam Cilla
  • M.Á. Martínez
  • Miguel Ángel Martínez
  • M. Doblaré
  • Patricia Hernández-López

The research output has been published in a variety of journals and conference venues. The most frequent venues are:

  • Jornadas de jóvenes investigadores del I3A
  • Journal of Biomechanics
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia
  • Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials/Journal of mechanical behavior of biomedical materials

Best Publications

  • A three-dimensional finite element analysis of the combined behavior of ligaments and menisci in the healthy human knee joint.

    E. Peña;B. Calvo;M.A. Martínez;M. Doblaré

  • Finite element analysis of the effect of meniscal tears and meniscectomies on human knee biomechanics.

    Estefanía Peña;B Calvo;Miguel Angel Martínez;Daniel Palanca

  • Why lateral meniscectomy is more dangerous than medial meniscectomy. A finite element study

    Estefania Peña;Begoña Calvo;Miguel Angel Martinez;Daniel Palanca

  • Biomechanical modeling of refractive corneal surgery.

    V. Alastrué;B. Calvo;E. Peña;M. Doblaré

  • An uncoupled directional damage model for fibred biological soft tissues. Formulation and computational aspects

    B. Calvo;E. Peña;M. A. Martinez;M. Doblaré

  • An anisotropic visco-hyperelastic model for ligaments at finite strains. Formulation and computational aspects

    E. Peña;B. Calvo;M.A. Martínez;M. Doblaré

  • Mathematical modelling of atheroma plaque formation and development in coronary arteries

    Myriam Cilla;Estefanía Peña;Miguel A. Martínez

  • A finite element simulation of the effect of graft stiffness and graft tensioning in ACL reconstruction.

    E. Peña;M.A. Martínez;B. Calvo;D. Palanca

  • On the Mullins effect and hysteresis of fibered biological materials: A comparison between continuous and discontinuous damage models

    Estefanía Peña;Juan A. Peña;Manuel Doblaré

  • Assessing the Use of the “Opening Angle Method” to Enforce Residual Stresses in Patient-Specific Arteries

    Victor Alastrué;Estefanía Peña;Miguel Ángel Martínez;Manuel Doblaré

  • Mechanical behaviour of synthetic surgical meshes: Finite element simulation of the herniated abdominal wall

    B. Hernández-Gascón;E. Peña;H. Melero;G. Pascual

  • Epicardial delivery of collagen patches with adipose-derived stem cells in rat and minipig models of chronic myocardial infarction.

    Miriam Araña;Juan J. Gavira;Estefanía Peña;Arantxa González

  • Effect of the size and location of osteochondral defects in degenerative arthritis. A finite element simulation

    Estefanía Peña;Begoña Calvo;Miguel Angel Martínez;Manuel Doblaré

  • Mechanical and histological characterization of the abdominal muscle. A previous step to modelling hernia surgery.

    B. Hernández;E. Peña;G. Pascual;M. Rodríguez

  • Influence of the tunnel angle in ACL reconstructions on the biomechanics of the knee joint.

    E. Peña;B. Calvo;M.A. Martinez;D. Palanca

  • A constitutive formulation of vascular tissue mechanics including viscoelasticity and softening behaviour

    E. Peña;E. Peña;V. Alastrué;V. Alastrué;A. Laborda;A. Laborda;M.A. Martínez;M.A. Martínez

  • On modelling damage process in vaginal tissue

    B. Calvo;E. Peña;P. Martins;T. Mascarenhas

  • Experimental study and constitutive modeling of the viscoelastic mechanical properties of the human prolapsed vaginal tissue.

    Estefania Peña;B. Calvo;M. A. Martínez;P. Martins

  • On modelling nonlinear viscoelastic effects in ligaments

    E. Peña;J.A. Peña;M. Doblaré

  • Mechanical characterization and constitutive modelling of the damage process in rectus sheath

    P. Martins;E. Peña;R.M. Natal Jorge;A. Santos;A. Santos

Frequent Co-Authors

Miguel Ángel Martínez
Miguel Ángel Martínez University of Zaragoza
Begoña Calvo
Begoña Calvo University of Zaragoza
Manuel Doblaré
Manuel Doblaré University of Zaragoza
António J.M. Ferreira
António J.M. Ferreira University of Porto
Felipe Prosper
Felipe Prosper University of Navarra
Ellen Kuhl
Ellen Kuhl Stanford University
Andreas Menzel
Andreas Menzel TU Dortmund University
José Manuel García-Verdugo
José Manuel García-Verdugo University of Valencia
Ashkan Vaziri
Ashkan Vaziri Northeastern University
Maria-Pau Ginebra
Maria-Pau Ginebra Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

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