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Santos BS, Ferreira MJ. Positron emission tomography in ischemic heart disease. Rev Port Cardiol 2019; 38:599-608. [DOI: 10.1016/j.repc.2019.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2017] [Accepted: 02/03/2019] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Santos BS, Ferreira MJ. Positron emission tomography in ischemic heart disease. REVISTA PORTUGUESA DE CARDIOLOGIA (ENGLISH EDITION) 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.repce.2019.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Camici PG, d'Amati G, Rimoldi O. Coronary microvascular dysfunction: mechanisms and functional assessment. Nat Rev Cardiol 2014; 12:48-62. [DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2014.160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 290] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Ohira H, Dowsley T, Dwivedi G, deKemp RA, Chow BJ, Ruddy TD, Davies RA, DaSilva J, Beanlands RSB, Hessian R. Quantification of myocardial blood flow using PET to improve the management of patients with stable ischemic coronary artery disease. Future Cardiol 2014; 10:611-31. [DOI: 10.2217/fca.14.44] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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ABSTRACT Cardiac PET has been evolving over the past 30 years. Today, it is accepted as a valuable imaging modality for the noninvasive assessment of coronary artery disease. PET has demonstrated superior diagnostic accuracy for the detection of coronary artery disease compared with single-photon emission computed tomography, and also has a well-established prognostic value. The routine addition of absolute quantification of myocardial blood flow increases the diagnostic accuracy for three-vessel disease and provides incremental functional and prognostic information. Moreover, the characterization of the vasodilator capacity of the coronary circulation may guide proper decision-making and monitor the effects of lifestyle changes, exercise training, risk factor modification or medical therapy for improving regional and global myocardial blood flow. This type of image-guided approach to individualized patient therapy is now attainable with the routine use of cardiac PET flow reserve imaging.
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- Hiroshi Ohira
- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- MFI program, National Cardiac PET Center, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Ponzini R, Vergara C, Rizzo G, Veneziani A, Roghi A, Vanzulli A, Parodi O, Redaelli A. Womersley number-based estimates of blood flow rate in Doppler analysis: in vivo validation by means of phase-contrast MRI. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2010; 57:1807-15. [PMID: 20659826 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2010.2046484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A common clinical practice during single-point Doppler analysis is to measure the centerline maximum velocity and to recover the time-averaged flow rate by exploiting an assumption on the shape of velocity profile (a priori formula), either a parabolic or a flat one. In a previous study, we proposed a new formula valid for the peak instant linking the maximum velocity and the flow rate by including a well-established dimensionless fluid-dynamics parameter (the Womersley number), in order to account for the hemodynamics conditions (Womersley number-based formula). Several in silico tests confirmed the reliability of the new formula. Nevertheless, an in vivo confirmation is missing limiting the clinical applicability of the formula. An experimental in vivo protocol using cine phase-contrast MRI (2-D PCMRI) technique has been designed and applied to ten healthy young volunteers in three different arterial districts: the abdominal aorta, the common carotid artery, and the brachial artery. Each PCMRI dataset has been used twice: 1) to compute the value of the blood flow rate used as a gold standard and 2) to estimate the flow rate by measuring directly the maximum velocity and the diameter (i.e., emulating the intravascular Doppler data acquisition) and by applying to these data the a priori and the Womersley number-based formulae. All the in vivo results have confirmed that the Womersley number-based formula provides better estimates of the flow rate at the peak instant with respect to the a priori formula. More precisely, mean performances of the Womersley number-based formula are about three times better than the a priori results in the abdominal aorta, five times better in the common carotid artery, and two times better in the brachial artery.
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- Raffaele Ponzini
- High Performance Computing Division, Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione Automatica, Segrate (MI) 20090, Italy.
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Vergara C, Ponzini R, Veneziani A, Redaelli A, Neglia D, Parodi O. Womersley number-based estimation of flow rate with Doppler ultrasound: sensitivity analysis and first clinical application. COMPUTER METHODS AND PROGRAMS IN BIOMEDICINE 2010; 98:151-160. [PMID: 19879011 DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.09.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2008] [Revised: 09/07/2009] [Accepted: 09/21/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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In this paper we continue in investigating the approach we have proposed in a paper recently published, for a reliable estimate of (peak systolic) blood flow rate from velocity Doppler measurements. Basic features of this approach together with some in silico test cases were discussed in that work. Here, we provide more insights of this approach by performing a sensitivity analysis of the formulas relating blood flow rate to velocity. In particular we analyze how our estimates are affected by perturbation or errors in measurements in comparison with a standard method for catheter based estimates based on the assumption of a parabolic velocity profile. A first glance to in vivo clinical applications is given as well.
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- Christian Vergara
- Department of Information Technology and Mathematical Methods, Università degli Studi di Bergamo, viale Marconi 5, Dalmine (BG), Italy.
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Ponzini R, Lemma M, Morbiducci U, Montevecchi FM, Redaelli A. Doppler derived quantitative flow estimate in coronary artery bypass graft: a computational multiscale model for the evaluation of the current clinical procedure. Med Eng Phys 2007; 30:809-16. [PMID: 17980641 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2007.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2007] [Revised: 09/12/2007] [Accepted: 09/16/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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In order to investigate the reliability of the so called mean velocity/vessel area formula adopted in clinical practice for the estimation of the flow rate using an intravascular Doppler guide wire instrumentation, a multiscale computational model was used to give detailed predictions on flow profiles within Y-shaped coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) models. At this purpose three CABG models were built from clinical patient's data and used to evaluate and compare, in each model, the computed flow rate and the flow rate estimated according to the assumption of parabolic velocity profile. A consistent difference between the exact and the estimated value of the flow rate was found in every branch of all the graft models. In this study we showed that this discrepancy in the flow rate estimation is coherent to the theory of Womersley regarding spatial velocity profiles in unsteady flow conditions. In particular this work put in evidence that the error in flow rate estimation can be reduced by using the estimation formula recently proposed by Ponzini et al. [Ponzini R, Vergara C, Redaelli A, Veneziani A. Reliable CFD-based estimation of flow rate in haemodynamics measures. Ultrasound Med Biol 2006;32(10):1545-55], accounting for the unsteady nature of blood, applicable in the clinical practice without resorting to further measurements.
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- Raffaele Ponzini
- Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy; Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per l'Elaborazione e l'Automazione (CILEA), Milan, Italy.
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Ponzini R, Vergara C, Redaelli A, Veneziani A. Reliable CFD-based estimation of flow rate in haemodynamics measures. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2006; 32:1545-55. [PMID: 17045876 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2006] [Revised: 05/15/2006] [Accepted: 05/22/2006] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Physically useful measures in current clinical practice refer often to the blood flow rate, that is related to the mean velocity. However, the direct measurement of the latter is currently not possible using a Doppler velocimetry technique. Therefore, the usual approach to calculate the flow rate with this technique consists in measuring the maximum velocity and in estimating the mean velocity, making the hypothesis of parabolic profile that in realistic situations results in strongly inaccurate estimates. In this paper, we propose a different way for estimating the flow rate regarded as a function of maximum velocity and Womersley number. This relation is obtained by fixing a parametrised representation and by evaluating the parameters by means of a least-square approach working on the numerical results of CFD simulations (about 200). Numerical simulations are carried out by prescribing the flow rate, not the velocity profile. In this way, no bias is implicitly induced in prescribing boundary conditions. Validation tests based on numerical simulations show that the proposed relation improves the flow rate estimation.
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- Raffaele Ponzini
- Department of Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Segrate (MI), Italy.
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Hillewaert W, Courtens K, McLaughlin M, Wauters J, Wilmer A, Bijnens B, Claus P, Verdonck P, Devos P, Segers P. Numerical assessment of the impact of a flow wire on its velocity measurements. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2006; 32:1025-36. [PMID: 16829316 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2006.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2005] [Revised: 03/02/2006] [Accepted: 03/16/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Blood flow velocities can be measured using a Doppler flow wire. This numerical study evaluates the impact of a 0.014" flow wire on the measured frequencies in a straight artery with diameters of 3 mm and 4 mm, under steady and pulsatile flow conditions. Simulations were performed with the wires positioned differently in the artery (perfectly centred and at an offset of 0.5 mm from the wall) and with different types of wire (tilted and straight). Measurements were taken at range gates from 4 mm to 10 mm. During simulations using a 3-mm vessel under pulsatile flow conditions, the relative error between the measured and reference maximum frequency (occurring in absence of the wire) decreased from 17.7% to 11.6% (with a mean value of 14.9%). During simulations using an off-centre 1.5 degree tilted wire, the mean error was approximately 5%. Therefore, our study suggests that that a centrally positioned flow wire is unfavourable for measuring flow velocities.
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- Wim Hillewaert
- Cardiovascular Mechanics and Biofluid Dynamics, Institute of Biomedical Technology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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Banerjee RK, Sinha Roy A, Back LH, Back MR, Khoury SF, Millard RW. Characterizing momentum change and viscous loss of a hemodynamic endpoint in assessment of coronary lesions. J Biomech 2006; 40:652-62. [PMID: 16530204 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2005] [Accepted: 01/21/2006] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR(myo)) and coronary flow reserve (CFR), measured with guidewire, and quantitative angiography (QA) are widely used in combination to distinguish ischemic from non-ischemic coronary stenoses. Recent studies have shown that simultaneous measurements of FFR(myo) and CFR are recommended to dissociate conduit epicardial coronary stenoses from distal resistance microvascular disease. In this study, a more comprehensive diagnostic parameter, named as lesion flow coefficient, c, is proposed. The coefficient, c, which accounts for mean pressure drop, Delta p, mean coronary flow, Q, and percentage area stenosis, can be used to assess the hemodynamic severity of a coronary artery stenoses. Importantly, the contribution of viscous loss and loss due to momentum change for several lesion sizes can be distinguished using c. FFR(myo), CFR and c were calculated for pre-angioplasty, intermediate and post-angioplasty epicardial lesions, without microvascular disease. While hyperemic c decreased from 0.65 for pre-angioplasty to 0.48 for post-angioplasty lesion with guidewire of size 0.35 mm, FFR(myo) increased from 0.52 to 0.87, and CFR increased from 1.72 to 3.45, respectively. Thus, reduced loss produced by momentum change due to lower percentage area stenosis decreased c. For post-angioplasty lesion, c decreased from 0.55 to 0.48 with the insertion of guidewire. Hence, increased viscous loss due to the presence of guidewire decreased c compared with a lesion without guidewire. Further, c showed a linear relationship with FFR(myo), CFR and percentage area stenosis for pre-angioplasty, intermediate and post-angioplasty lesion. These baseline values of c were developed from fluid dynamics fundamentals for focal lesions, and provided a single hemodynamic endpoint to evaluate coronary stenosis severity.
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- Rupak K Banerjee
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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Hillewaert W, Mc Laughlin M, Wauters J, Bijnens B, Verdonck P, Claus P, Devos P, Segers P. Using a Doppler wire to measure intravascular flow. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2005. [DOI: 10.1080/10255840512331388650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Jenni R, Matthews F, Aschkenasy SV, Lachat M, van Der Loo B, Oechslin E, Namdar M, Jiang Z, Kaufmann PA. A novel in vivo procedure for volumetric flow measurements. ULTRASOUND IN MEDICINE & BIOLOGY 2004; 30:633-637. [PMID: 15183229 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/05/2003] [Revised: 01/21/2004] [Accepted: 02/03/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We report on a novel procedure for invasive volumetric blood flow measurements using a commercially available Doppler flow wire system, which could, until now, only measure flow velocity. We here describe a method applicable in vivo to generate both velocity and cross-sectional area information from the same pulsed-wave Doppler signal for volumetric flow assessment. We demonstrate its feasibility and validation in vivo in pig coronary arteries. Our Doppler-derived volumetric flow measurements were compared with the respective transit-time flow and showed an excellent correlation (r = 0.969; p < 0.0001). Agreement between transit-time and Doppler-derived flow measurements could be observed for flow conditions ranging from 30 to 180 mL/min. The mean values for the two methods were 71.4 +/- 43.7 mL/min and 71.3 +/- 42.2 mL/min, respectively. We conclude that this technique might possibly be introduced into future clinical practice as an invasive procedure of choice for the assessment of volumetric blood flow.
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- Rolf Jenni
- Echocardiography, Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Andrews RT, Binkert CA. Relative rates of blood flow reduction during transcatheter arterial embolization with tris-acryl gelatin microspheres or polyvinyl alcohol: quantitative comparison in a swine model. J Vasc Interv Radiol 2004; 14:1311-6. [PMID: 14551279 DOI: 10.1097/01.rvi.0000092903.31640.70] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To determine whether two commonly used embolic agents have differing rates of blood flow reduction during transcatheter embolization of the renal arteries in an animal model. MATERIALS AND METHODS The renal arteries of 10 pigs were embolized with either polyvinyl alcohol (300-500 or 500-700- micro m) or tris-acryl gelatin microspheres (300-500 or 700-900- micro m). Equivalent unit doses of each agent were suspended in 40 mL of fluid and injected in 1-mL aliquots for 20 mL and then in 5-mL aliquots for 20 mL. Blood flow was measured after each aliquot with an intraarterial Doppler flow wire placed through the embolization catheter. RESULTS Renal arterial blood flow was most rapidly and reliably decreased by 300-500- and 700-900- micro m microspheres, both of which had achieved >90% reduction from baseline flow after the injection of 6 mL of suspension. An equivalent reduction in flow required 25 mL of 300-500- micro m PVA suspension and 30 mL of 500-700- micro m PVA suspension. The reduction in blood flow with microspheres was significantly greater (P <.05) than that with PVA between 5 and 19 mL of suspension delivered. Differences between larger and smaller particle sizes of the same agent were not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS Tris-acryl gelatin microspheres reduced renal blood flow more quickly and reliably than did PVA. The type of agent used in embolization had a greater impact on the rate of flow reduction than did particle size in the range of sizes tested.
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- Robert T Andrews
- Dotter Interventional Institute, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 NE Pacific St., RR 215, Box 357115, Seattle, Washington 98195-7115, USA.
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