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Nair PK, Carr JG, Bigelow B, Bhatt DL, Berwick ZC, Adams G. LumenRECON Guidewire: Pilot Study of a Novel, Nonimaging Technology for Accurate Vessel Sizing and Delivery of Therapy in Femoropopliteal Disease. Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2018; 11:e005333. [PMID: 29311285 DOI: 10.1161/circinterventions.117.005333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Accepted: 12/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Proper vessel sizing during endovascular interventions is crucial to avoid adverse procedural and clinical outcomes. LumenRECON (LR) is a novel, nonimaging, 0.035-inch wire-based technology that uses the physics-based principle of Ohm's law to provide a simple, real-time luminal size while also providing a platform for therapy delivery. This study evaluated the accuracy, reliability, and safety of the LR system in patients presenting for a femoropopliteal artery intervention. METHODS AND RESULTS This multicenter, prospective pilot study of 24 patients presenting for peripheral intervention compared LR measurements of femoropopliteal artery size to angiographic visual estimation, duplex ultrasound, quantitative angiography, and intravascular ultrasound. The primary effectiveness and safety end point was comparison against core laboratory adjudicated intravascular ultrasound values and major adverse events, respectively. Additional preclinical studies were also performed in vitro and in vivo in swine to determine the accuracy of the LR guidewire system. No intra- or postprocedure device-related adverse events occurred. A balloon or stent was successfully delivered in 12 patients (50%) over the LR wire. Differences in repeatability between successive LR measurements was 2.5±0.40% (R2=0.96) with no significant bias. Differences in measurements of LR to other modalities were 0.5±1.7%, 5.0±1.8%, -1.5±2.0%, and 6.8±3.4% for intravascular ultrasound core laboratory, quantitative angiography, angiographic, and duplex ultrasound, respectively. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that through a physics-based principle, LR provides a real-time, safe, reproducible, and accurate vessel size of the femoropopliteal artery during intervention and can additionally serve as a conduit for therapy delivery over its wire-based platform.
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- Pradeep K Nair
- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.).
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- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.)
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- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.)
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- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.)
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- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.)
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- From the Cardiovascular Institute of the South, Houma, LA (P.K.N.); Cardiovascular Associates of East Texas, Tyler (J.G.C.); Heart Center of Indiana, Indianapolis (B.B.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.L.B.); 3DT Holdings, LLC, San Diego, CA (Z.C.B.); and North Carolina Heart and Vascular Research Center, Raleigh (G.A.)
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Choi HW, Berwick ZC, Sulkin MS, Owens CD, Kassab GS. Optimization of Peripheral Vascular Sizing with Conductance Guidewire: Theory and Experiment. PLoS One 2017; 12:e0168886. [PMID: 28045933 PMCID: PMC5207717 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0168886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Although the clinical range of interventions for coronary arteries is about 2 to 5 mm, the range of diameters of peripheral vasculature is significantly larger (about 10 mm for human iliac artery). When the vessel diameter is increased, the spacing between excitation electrodes on a conductance sizing device must also increase to accommodate the greater range of vessel diameters. The increase in the excitation electrodes distance, however, causes higher parallel conductance or current losses outside of artery lumen. We have previously shown that the conductance catheter/guidewire excitation electrode distances affects the measurement accuracy for the peripheral artery lumen sizing. Here, we propose a simple solution that varies the detection electrode distances to compensate for parallel conductance losses. Computational models were constructed to simulate the conductance guidewire with various electrodes spacing combinations over a range of peripheral artery lumen diameters and surrounding tissue electrical conductivities. The results demonstrate that the measurement accuracy may be significantly improved by increased detection spacing. Specifically, an optimally configured detection/excitation spacing (i.e., 5-5-5 or an equidistant electrode interval with a detection-to-excitation spacing ratio of 0.3) was shown to accurately predict the lumen diameter (i.e., -10% < error < 10%) over a broad range of peripheral artery dimensions (4 mm < diameter < 10 mm). The computational results were substantiated with both ex-vivo and in-vivo measurements of peripheral arteries. The present results support the accuracy of the conductance technique for measurement of peripheral reference vessel diameter.
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- Hyo Won Choi
- The California Medical Innovations Institute, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
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- The California Medical Innovations Institute, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America
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von Ellenrieder N, Beltrachini L, Muravchik CH, Gotman J. Extent of cortical generators visible on the scalp: Effect of a subdural grid. Neuroimage 2014; 101:787-95. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2014] [Revised: 08/01/2014] [Accepted: 08/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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von Ellenrieder N, Beltrachini L, Perucca P, Gotman J. Size of cortical generators of epileptic interictal events and visibility on scalp EEG. Neuroimage 2014; 94:47-54. [PMID: 24636878 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.02.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 02/06/2014] [Accepted: 02/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Growing evidence indicates that fast oscillations (>80 Hz) can be recorded interictally in the scalp EEG of patients with epilepsy, and that they may point to the seizure-onset zone. However, mechanisms underpinning the emergence of scalp fast oscillations, and whether they differ from those of interictal epileptic discharges (IEDs), are yet to be understood. The visibility of cortical electric activity on scalp EEG recordings is dependent on two factors: the characteristics of the cortical generator and the background level. We studied this issue using scalp EEG recordings and detailed simulations, with a finite element model including 8 million elements and 8 different tissues. We observed an almost linear relationship between the amplitude of scalp electric potential and the extent of the generator on the cortex. However, this relationship is subject to substantial variability, with variations in factors greater than 3 occurring simply by changing the location on the cortex of generators of fixed extent. In addition, we showed that the background power in scalp EEG recordings decreases at higher frequency bands, being inversely proportional to a power of 2.5 of the frequency. In the specific case of fast oscillations, they can be detected within the lower noise level of the ripple band (80-200 Hz) even though their median amplitude on scalp EEG recordings is more than 10 times smaller than IEDs and consistent with cortical generators of approximately 1 cm(2). In conclusion, the physics governing the propagation of electrical activity from the brain to the scalp are consistent with the hypothesis that scalp fast oscillations and intracranial high-frequency oscillations (HFOs, 80-500 Hz) are expressions of common generators. Given the potential role of HFOs as biomarkers in epilepsy, the possibility to obtain some of the associated information from scalp EEG is of high clinical significance.
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- Nicolás von Ellenrieder
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada; LEICI, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Calle 1 y 47, La Plata, Buenos Aires B1900TAG, Argentina.
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- CISTIB, The University of Sheffield, Sir Frederick Mappin Bldg, Mappin Street, S1 3JD Sheffield, UK
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- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, 3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4, Canada
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Choi HW, Zhang ZD, Farren ND, Kassab GS. Implications of complex anatomical junctions on conductance catheter measurements of coronary arteries. J Appl Physiol (1985) 2013; 114:656-64. [PMID: 23305988 DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00987.2012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In vivo, the position of the conductance catheter to measure vessel lumen cross-sectional area may vary depending on where the conductance catheter is deployed in the complex anatomical geometry of arteries, including branches, bifurcations, or curvatures. The objective here is to determine how such geometric variations affect the cross-sectional area (CSA) estimates obtained using the cylindrical model. Computer simulations and in vitro and in vivo experiments were used to assess how the electric field and associated CSA measurement accuracy are affected by three typical in vivo conditions: 1) a vessel with abrupt change in lumen diameter (e.g., transition from aorta to coronary ostia); 2) a vessel with a T-bifurcation or a Y-bifurcation; and 3) a vessel curvature, such as in the right coronary artery, aorta, or pulmonary artery. The error in diameter from simulation results was shown to be relatively small (<7%), unless the detection electrodes were placed near the junction between two different lumen diameters or at a bifurcation junction. Furthermore, the present findings show that the effect of misaligned catheter-vessel geometrical configuration and vessel curvature on measurement accuracy is negligible. Collectively, the findings support the accuracy of the conductance method for sizing blood vessels, despite the geometric complexities of the cardiovascular system, as long as the detection electrodes are not placed at a large discontinuity in diameter or at bifurcation junctions.
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- Hyo Won Choi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA
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