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Ricardo Armentano
Ricardo Armentano
Favaloro University, Ciudad Autonoma Buen
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Short Biography
Professor Ricardo Armentano, is currently Distinguished Professor of the Favaloro University, Technology and Innovation Consultant and Vice Chairman Global Citizen Safety and Security Working Group of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering; class 1  researcher by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Technology of the República Argentina and Grade 5 Investigator of the URU/84/002, United Nations Program for the Development of Basic Sciences. He received the Engineering degree in 1984, by the end of 1994 he qualified as Doctor of the University of Buenos Aires in Physiological Sciences and in 1999 he obtained the PhD degree from Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot, for the Doctorat de Biomecanique: Mecanique de Systèmes Biologiques. He has acquired international recognition in the field of cardiovascular hemodynamics and arterial hypertension. He has taught in the fields of cardiovascular dynamics and in the broad area of engineering in medicine and biology and has extensive experience in PhD supervision and in examination of local and international higher degree theses. He is on the editorial board of journals of cardiovascular research and is a reviewer for over 25 international scientific journals. He has over 200 publications including a book, book chapters and peer-reviewed articles. Ricardo Armentano is a Member of the EMBS IEEE since 1985. He was elected as a Senior Member of IEEE (2001) and Chair of the Argentinean Chapter of the EMBS, IEEE (2004). He was the conference chair of the 32nd International Conference EMBS IEEE Buenos Aires 2010. He was the 2015 Latin-American IEEE EMB representative
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
  • Mariano E Casciaro, Salma El-Batti, Gilles Chironi, Alain Simon, Elie Mousseaux, Ricardo L Armentano, Jean-Marc Alsac, Damian Craiem (2015)  Deformable Surface Model for the Evaluation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Treated with an Endovascular Sealing System. Annals of biomedical engineering Sep.
  • Daniel Bia, Cintia Galli, Rodolfo Valtuille, Yanina Zócalo, Sandra A Wray, Ricardo L Armentano, Edmundo I Cabrera Fischer (2015)  Hydration Status Is Associated with Aortic Stiffness, but Not with Peripheral Arterial Stiffness, in Chronically Hemodialysed Patients. International journal of nephrology 2015:  06.
  • J M Perez Zerpa, A Canelas, B Sensale, D Bia Santana, R L Armentano (2015)  Modeling the arterial wall mechanics using a novel high-order viscoelastic fractional element journal of Applied Mathematical Modelling.
  • Edmundo I Cabrera Fischer, Daniel Bia, Cintia Galli, Rodolfo Valtuille, Yanina Zócalo, Sandra Wray, Ricardo L Armentano (2015)  Hemodialysis decreases carotid-brachial and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocities: A 5-year follow-up study. Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis 19:  3.  419-428 Jul.
  • Christina Battista, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zocalo German, Ricardo Armentano, Mette S Olufsen, Mansoor A Haider (2014)  Wave propagation in a 1D fluid dynamics model validated using pressure-area measurements from ovine arteries Advances in Mechanical Engineering 11: .
  • D Suarez Bagnasco, F Montini Ballarin, L J Cymberknop, G Balay, C Negreira, G A Abraham, R L Armentano (2014)  Elasticity assessment of electrospun nanofibrous vascular grafts: a comparison with femoral ovine arteries. Materials science & engineering. C, Materials for biological applications 45:  446-454 Dec.
  • Ricardo L Armentano, Leandro J Cymberknop, Diego Suarez Bagnasco, Florencia Montini Ballarin, Guillermo Balay, Carlos A Negreira, Gustavo A Abraham (2014)  Similarities of arterial collagen pressure-diameter relationship in ovine femoral arteries and PLLA vascular grafts. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2014:  2302-2305 Aug.
  • Manuel R Alfonso, Leandro J Cymberknop, Walter Legnani, Franco Pessana, Ricardo L Armentano (2014)  Conceptual model of arterial tree based on solitons by compartments. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2014:  3224-3227 Aug.
  • Edmundo I Cabrera Fischer, Daniel Bia, Cintia Galli, Rodolfo Valtuille, Yanina Zócalo, Sandra Wray, Ricardo L Armentano (2014)  Hemodialysis decreases carotid-brachial and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocities: five-year follow-up study Hemodialysis International.
  • Ricardo Armentano, Luis Kun (2014)  Multidisciplinary, holistic and patient specific approach to follow up elderly adults Health and Technology.
  • Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Sandra Wray, Ricardo L Armentano (2014)  Quantitative analysis of the relationship between blood vessel wall constituents and viscoelastic properties: Dynamic biomechanical and structural in vitro studies in aorta and carotid arterie Physiology Journal 2314-4319.
  • Mariano E Casciaro, Damian Craiem, Gilles Chironi, Sebastian Graf, Laurent Macron, Elie Mousseaux, Alain Simon, Ricardo L Armentano (2014)  Identifying the principal modes of variation in human thoracic aorta morphology. Journal of thoracic imaging 29:  4.  224-232 Jul.
  • D Suárez-Bagnasco, G Balay, L Cymberknop, R L Armentano, C A Negreira (2013)  Measurement system for an in-vitro characterization of the biomechanics and hemodynamics of arterial bifurcations Journal of Physics Conference Series 03: .
  • Yanina Zócalo, Daniel Bia, Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Sandra Wray, Cintia Galli, Ricardo L Armentano (2013)  Structural and Functional Properties of Venous Wall: Relationship between Elastin, Collagen, and Smooth Muscle Components and Viscoelastic Properties ISRN Physiology 05: .
  • D Suárez-Bagnasco, R L Armentano, G Balay, C Negreira (2013)  An hemodynamic work bench for in-vitro measurements in arterial bifurcations: experimental results and comparison with the output of a simplified CFD model. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2013:  735-738 Jul.
  • Ricardo L Armentano, Leandro J Cymberknop, Walter Legnani, Franco M Pessana, Damian Craiem, Sebastian Graf, Juan G Barra (2013)  Arterial pressure fractality is highly dependent on wave reflection. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2013:  1960-1963 Jul.
  • Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Sandra Wray, Ricardo Armentano (2013)  The adventitia layer modulates the arterial wall elastic response to intra-aortic counterpulsation: in vivo studies. Artificial organs 37:  12.  1041-1048 Dec.
  • X - F Wanga, J - M Fullana, P - Y Lagrée, R L Armentano (2013)  Effect of viscoelasticity of arterial wall on pulse wave: a comparative study on ovine. Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering 16 Suppl 1:  25-26.
  • L J Cymberknop, W Legnani, J G Barra, F M Pessana, R L Armentano (2013)  Fractal dimension as an index of left ventricular ischaemia: a pilot study. Physiological measurement 34:  1.  83-97 Jan.
  • Yanina Zócalo, Daniel Bia, Ricardo L Armentano, Juan González-Moreno, Gonzalo Varela, Fernando Calleriza, Walter Reyes-Caorsi (2013)  Resynchronization improves heart-arterial coupling reducing arterial load determinants. Europace : European pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac electrophysiology : journal of the working groups on cardiac pacing, arrhythmias, and cardiac cellular electrophysiology of the European Society of Cardiology 15:  4.  554-565 Apr.
  • R L Armentano (2012)  Updating Engineering Education in the Southern Cone: Creativity and Innovation Creative Education 3:  733-736.
  • Ignacio Farro, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Lucia Florio, Ricardo Lluberas, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Aging-related changes and reference values for the carotid intima-media thickness in a Uruguayan population. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2012:  5622-5625 Aug.
  • Sebastian Graf, Damian Craiem, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Non invasive assessment of carotid and femoral arterial pressure using B-mode ultrasound diameter waveforms. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2012:  5610-5613 Aug.
  • Juan Torrado, Ignacio Farro, Federico Farro, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Claudio Sosa, Santiago Scasso, Justo Alonso, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Carotid-radial pulse wave velocity as an alternative tool for the evaluation of endothelial function during pregnancy: potential role in identifying hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2012:  5603-5606 Aug.
  • Damian Craiem, Mariano E Casciaro, Sebastian Graf, Gilles Chironi, Alain Simon, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Effects of aging on thoracic aorta size and shape: a non-contrast CT study. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2012:  4986-4989 Aug.
  • Leandro J Cymberknop, Walter Legnani, Franco M Pessana, Alberto Crottogini, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Coronary arterial stiffness is related with a loss of fractal complexity in the aortic pressure. Conference proceedings : ... Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference 2012:  4200-4203 Aug.
  • Juan Torrado, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ignacio Farro, Federico Farro, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Hyperemia-Related Changes in Arterial Stiffness: Comparison between Pulse Wave Velocity and Stiffness Index in the Vascular Reactivity Assessment. Int J Vasc Med 2012:  08.
  • Juan Torrado, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ignacio Farro, Federico Farro, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Hyperemia-Related Changes in Arterial Stiffness: Comparison between Pulse Wave Velocity and Stiffness Index in the Vascular Reactivity Assessment International Journal of Vascular Medicine ID 490742: .
  • Craiem Damian, Graf Sebastián, Armentano Ricardo Luis, Barra Juan Gabriel (2012)  Vascular Smooth Muscle Activation Improves Aortic Compliance with Respect to Mechanical Loading Cardiovascular engineering and technology 2012:  3:1.  80,87.
  • Ignacio Farro, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Lucía Florio, Alicia Olascoaga, Walter Alallón, Ricardo Lluberas, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Pulse wave velocity as marker of preclinical arterial disease: reference levels in a uruguayan population considering wave detection algorithms, path lengths, aging, and blood pressure. Int J Hypertens 2012:  05.
  • Daniel Bia, Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Yanina Zócalo, Cintia Galli, Sebastián Graf, Rodolfo Valtuille, Héctor Pérez-Cámpos, María Saldías, Inés Alvarez, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Vascular accesses for haemodialysis in the upper arm cause greater reduction in the carotid-brachial stiffness than those in the forearm: study of gender differences. Int J Nephrol 2012:  04.
  • Daniel Bia Santana, Yanina A Zócalo, Ignacio Farro Ventura, Juan Francisco Torrado Arrosa, Lucía Florio, Ricardo Lluberas, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Health informatics design for assisted diagnosis of subclinical atherosclerosis, structural, and functional arterial age calculus and patient-specific cardiovascular risk evaluation. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 16:  5.  943-951 Sep.
  • Daniel Bia Santana, Yanina A Zócalo, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Integrated e-Health approach based on vascular ultrasound and pulse wave analysis for asymptomatic atherosclerosis detection and cardiovascular risk stratification in the community. IEEE Trans Inf Technol Biomed 16:  2.  287-294 Mar.
  • Damian Craiem, Gilles Chironi, Alban Redheuil, Mariano Casciaro, Elie Mousseaux, Alain Simon, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Aging impact on thoracic aorta 3D morphometry in intermediate-risk subjects: looking beyond coronary arteries with non-contrast cardiac CT. Ann Biomed Eng 40:  5.  1028-1038 May.
  • Daniel Bia, Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Yanina Zócalo, Ricardo L Armentano (2012)  Intra-aortic balloon pumping reduces the increased arterial load caused by acute cardiac depression, modifying central and peripheral load determinants in a time- and flow-related way. Heart Vessels 27:  5.  517-527 Sep.
  • Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ricardo L Armentano, Héctor Pérez-Cámpos, Juan Fernández-Pin, Ana Panuncio, María Saldías, Ana Mariño, Inés Alvarez (2012)  Post-implant evaluation of the anastomotic mechanical and geometrical coupling between human native arteries and arterial cryografts implanted in lower-limb: mechanical, histological and ultraestructural studies of implanted cryografts. Cryobiology 64:  1.  50-59 Feb.
  • M E Casciaro, D Craiem, S Graf, E P Gurfinkel, R L Armentano (2011)  Construction of a 3D coronary map to assess geometrical information in-vivo from coronary patients Journal of Physics: Conference Series 232: .
  • Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ignacio Farro, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Lucía Florio, Alicia Olascoaga, Javier Brum, Walter Alallón, Carlos Negreira, Ricardo Lluberas, Ricardo L Armentano (2011)  Integrated Evaluation of Age-Related Changes in Structural and Functional Vascular Parameters Used to Assess Arterial Aging, Subclinical Atherosclerosis, and Cardiovascular Risk in Uruguayan Adults: CUiiDARTE Project. Int J Hypertens 2011:  12.
  • Javier Brum, Daniel Bia, Nicolas Benech, Guillermo Balay, Ricardo L Armentano, Carlos Negreira (2011)  Arterial diameter measurement using high resolution ultrasonography: in vitro validation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  203-206 Aug.
  • Leandro Cymberknop, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ignacio Farro, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Franco Pessana, Ricardo L Armentano (2011)  Gender-related differences in the excess pressure component of central aortic pressure waveform of healthy young. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  207-210 Aug.
  • Ignacio Farro, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Ricardo L Armentano (2011)  Pulse wave velocity normal levels in a Uruguayan population: differences between 'adjusted' and measured values vary depending on age and the calculation algorithm used. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  211-214 Aug.
  • Ricardo L Armentano, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Torrado, Ignacio Farro, Federico Farro, Lucía Florio, Alicia Olascoaga, Walter Alallon, Carlos Negreira, Ricardo Lluberas (2011)  Uruguay eHealth initiative: preliminary studies regarding an integrated approach to evaluate vascular age and preclinical atherosclerosis (CUiiDARTE project). Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  842-845 Aug.
  • Daniel Bia, Leandro Cymberknop, Yanina Zócalo, Ignacio Farro, Juan Torrado, Federico Farro, Franco Pessana, Ricardo L Armentano (2011)  Age-related changes in reservoir and excess components of central aortic pressure in asymptomatic adults. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  6454-6457 Aug.
  • J Torrado, D Bia, Y Zócalo, I Farro, F Farro, M Valero, R L Armentano (2011)  Carotid-radial pulse wave velocity as a discriminator of intrinsic wall alterations during evaluation of endothelial function by flow-mediated dilatation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2011:  6458-6461 Aug.
  • Daniel Bia, Edmundo I Cabrera-Fischer, Yanina Zócalo, Ricardo L Armentano (2011)  The endothelium modulates the arterial wall mechanical response to intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: in vivo studies. Artif Organs 35:  9.  883-892 Sep.
  • Gilles Chironi, Alain Simon, Jean-Louis Megnien, Marie-Emmanuelle Sirieix, Elie Mousseaux, Franco Pessana, Ricardo Armentano (2011)  Impact of coronary artery calcium on cardiovascular risk categorization and lipid-lowering drug eligibility in asymptomatic hypercholesterolemic men. Int J Cardiol 151:  2.  200-204 Sep.
  • Daniela Valdez-Jasso, Daniel Bia, Yanina Zócalo, Ricardo L Armentano, Mansoor A Haider, Mette S Olufsen (2011)  Linear and nonlinear viscoelastic modeling of aorta and carotid pressure-area dynamics under in vivo and ex vivo conditions. Ann Biomed Eng 39:  5.  1438-1456 May.
  • Edmundo Cabrera Fischer, Daniel Bia Santana, Yanina Zócalo, Juan Camus, Eduardo de Forteza, Ricardo Armentano (2010)  Effects of removing the adventitia on the mechanical properties of ovine femoral arteries in vivo and in vitro. Circ J 74:  5.  1014-1022 May.
  • R Armentano, E de Forteza (2010)  Merging medical humanism and technology. IEEE Pulse 1:  1.  50-54 Jul/Aug.
  • N Zajarevich, D Bia, F Pessana, J Codnia, R Armentano (2010)  Arterial pressure and diameter waveforms analysis by means of wavelet transform: application to artery de-endothelization. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  4550-4553.
  • L Cymberknop, F Pessana, R Armentano, W Legnani, A Furfaro (2010)  Flow behavior and applicability of models for different hemodynamic states. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  4963-4966.
  • J Brum, G Balay, D Bia, R L Armentano, C Negreira (2010)  Feasibility of a transient elastography technique for in vitro arterial elasticity assessment. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  37-40.
  • Alejandra I Christen, Ricardo L Armentano, Adrián Miranda, Sebastián Graf, Daniel B Santana, Yanina Zócalo, Hugo P Baglivo, Ramiro A Sánchez (2010)  Arterial wall structure and dynamics in type 2 diabetes mellitus methodological aspects and pathophysiological findings. Curr Diabetes Rev 6:  6.  367-377 Nov.
  • Sebastian Graf, Damian Craiem, Ricardo L Armentano (2010)  Validity of a new method to estimate mean arterial pressure at brachial level. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2861-2864.
  • J Torrado, I Farro, D Bia, Y Zocalo, G Valls, M Valero, F Salvucci, R L Armentano (2010)  Levels and rates of change in carotid-radial pulse wave velocity associated with reactive hyperaemia: Analysis of the dependence on transient ischemia length. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2865-2868.
  • D Bia, J Brum, F Pessana, Y Zócalo, G Balay, C Negreira, R L Armentano (2010)  Changes in wall viscosity and filtering as determinant of carotid and femoral atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability: theoretical analysis. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2630-2633.
  • D Valdez-Jasso, D Bia, M A Haider, Y Zocalo, R L Armentano, M S Olufsen (2010)  Linear and nonlinear viscoelastic modeling of ovine aortic biomechanical properties under in vivo and ex vivo conditions. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2634-2637.
  • G Balay, J Brum, D Bia, R L Armentano, C A Negreira (2010)  Improvement of artery radii determination with single ultra sound channel hardware & in vitro artificial heart system. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2521-2524.
  • D Bia, F Pessana, P Forcada, Y Zócalo, C Kotliar, R L Armentano (2010)  Non-invasive assessment of atherosclerotic plaques effects on the segment-to-segment human carotid visco-elasticity and filtering. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  2533-2536.
  • Rodrigo N Natero, Facundo Flores, Ricardo L Armentano (2010)  Humanitarian engineering: democratizing science and technology. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  308-311.
  • F P Salvucci, C A Perazzo, E Gurfinkel, R L Armentano, J G Barra (2010)  A patient-specific method for the evaluation of wall shear stress in human coronary arteries. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  3788-3791.
  • Mariano E Casciaro, Damian Craiem, Sebastian Graf, Enrique P Gurfinkel, Ricardo L Armentano (2010)  Estimation of coronary length-volume allometric relations of human arteries in vivo using CT. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010:  5716-5719.
  • Yanina Zócalo, Daniel Bia, Ricardo L Armentano, Cintia Galli, Héctor Pérez, María Saldías, Inés Alvarez, Rodolfo Valtuille, Edmundo Cabrera-Fischer (2010)  Vascular cryografts offer better biomechanical properties in chronically hemodialyzed patients: role of cryograft type, arterial pathway, and diabetic nephropathy as matching determinants. Artif Organs 34:  8.  677-684 Aug.
  • Damian Craiem, Sebastian Graf, Fernando Salvucci, Gilles Chironi, Jean-Louis Megnien, Alain Simon, Ricardo L Armentano (2010)  The physiological impact of the nonlinearity of arterial elasticity in the ambulatory arterial stiffness index. Physiol Meas 31:  7.  1037-1046 Jul.
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years

Distinguished Professor. Favaloro University

Technology and Innovation Consultant

Vice Chairman Global Citizen Safety and Security Working Group

International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering

2015 Latin-American IEEE EMB representative

Conference chair of the 32nd International Conference EMBS IEEE Buenos Aires 2010