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Sarifuddin, Mandal PK. Plaque heterogeneity and the spatial distributions of its components dictate drug-coated balloon therapy. Sci Rep 2024; 14:4412. [PMID: 38388639 PMCID: PMC11053051 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54756-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty is one of the potential approaches to alleviating in-stent restenosis and treating peripheral artery disease. An in-silico model has been developed for sirolimus drug eluted from an inflated balloon in a patient-specific arterial cross-section consisting of fibrous tissue, fibrofatty tissue, dense calcium, necrotic core, and healthy tissue. The convection-diffusion-reaction equation represents the transport of drug, while drug binding, both specific and non-specific, can be modelled as a reaction process. The Brinkman equations describe the interstitial flow in porous tissue. An image processing technique is leveraged for reconstructing the computational domain. The Marker and Cell, and Immersed Boundary Methods are used to solve the set of governing equations. The no-flux interface condition and convection do amplify the tissue content, and the regions of dense calcium and necrotic core limited to or extremely close to the interface pose a clinical threat to DCB therapy. Simulations predict the effects of the positioning and clustering of plaque components in the domain. This study demands extensive intravascular ultrasound-derived virtual histology (VH-IVUS) imaging to understand the plaque morphology and determine the relative positions of different plaque compositions about the lumen-tissue interface, which have a significant impact on arterial pharmacokinetics.
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- Sarifuddin
- Department of Mathematics, Berhampore College, Berhampore, Murshidabad, W.B., 742 101, India
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Karanasiou GS, Loukas VS, Siogkas P, Sakellarios AI, Tachos NS, Katsouras C, Moulas A, Ioakimidis K, Chatzimichailidis A, Semertzioglou A, Vratimos A, Spyridonidis I, Michalis LK, Fotiadis DI. Cleverballoon: An integrated approach for developing a drug-coated balloon with everolimus. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38083146 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10340583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a chronic disease associated with high mortality and morbidity. Although treatment with drug-eluting stents is the most frequent interventional approach for coronary artery disease, drug-coated balloons (DCBs) constitute an innovative alternative, especially in the presence of certain anatomical conditions in the local coronary vasculature. DCBs allow the fast and homogenous transfer of drugs into the arterial wall, during the balloon inflation. Their use has been established for treating in-stent restenosis caused by stent implantation, while recent clinical trials have shown a satisfactory efficacy in de novo small-vessel disease. Several factors affect DCBs performance including the catheter design, the drug dose and formulation. Cleverballoon focuses on the design and development of an innovative DCB with everolimus. For the realization of the development of this new DCB, an integrated approach, including in- vivo, in-vitro studies and in-silico modelling towards the DCB optimization, is presented.Clinical Relevance-The proposed study introduces the integration of in- vivo, in-vitro and in silico approaches in the design and development process of a new DCB, following the principles of 3R's for the replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal and clinical studies.
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Shazly T, Torres WM, Secemsky EA, Chitalia VC, Jaffer FA, Kolachalama VB. Understudied factors in drug-coated balloon design and evaluation: A biophysical perspective. Bioeng Transl Med 2023; 8:e10370. [PMID: 36684110 PMCID: PMC9842065 DOI: 10.1002/btm2.10370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2022] [Revised: 05/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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Drug-coated balloon (DCB) percutaneous interventional therapy allows for durable reopening of the narrowed lumen via physical tissue expansion and local anti-restenosis drug delivery, providing an alternative to traditional uncoated balloons or a permanent indwelling implant such as a conventional metallic drug-eluting stent. While DCB-based treatment of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has been incorporated into clinical guidelines, DCB use has been recently curtailed due to reports that showed evidence of increased mortality risk in patients treated with paclitaxel (PTX)-coated balloons. Given the United States Food and Drug Administration's 2019 consequent warning regarding PTX-eluting DCBs and the subsequent marked reduction in clinical DCB use, there is now a critical need to better understand the compositional and mechanical factors underlying DCB efficacy and safety. Most work to date on DCB refinement has focused on designing both the enabling balloon catheter and alternate coatings composed of various drugs and excipients, followed by device evaluation in preclinical and clinical studies. We contend that improvement in DCB performance will require a better understanding of the biophysical factors operative during and following balloon deployment, and moreover that the elaboration and demonstrated control of these factors are needed to address current concerns with DCB use. This article provides a perspective on the biophysical interactions that govern DCB performance and offers new design strategies for the development of next-generation DCB devices.
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- Tarek Shazly
- College of Engineering & Computing University of South Carolina Columbia South Carolina USA
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- College of Engineering & Computing University of South Carolina Columbia South Carolina USA
- Exponent Inc. Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA
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- Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Boston Veterans Affairs Healthcare System Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division Massachusetts General Hospital Boston Massachusetts USA
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- Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences Boston University Boston Massachusetts USA
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Biswas S, Sarifuddin, Mandal PK. An unsteady analysis of two-phase binding of drug in an asymmetric stenosed vessel. Biomed Phys Eng Express 2021. [DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/ac3d9b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In this paper, we investigate endovascular delivery to get a step ahead of the pharmacological limitations it has due to the complexity of dealing with a patient-specific vessel through a mathematical model. We divide the domain of computation into four sub-domains: the lumen, the lumen-tissue interface, the upper tissue and the lower tissue which are extracted from an asymmetric atherosclerotic image derived by the intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) technique. The injected drug at the luminal inlet is transported with the streaming blood which is considered Newtonian. An irreversible uptake kinetics of the injected drug at the lumen-tissue interface from the luminal side to the tissue domains is assumed. Subsequently, the drug is dispersed within the tissue followed by its retention in the extracellular matrix (ECM) and by receptor-mediated binding. The Marker and Cell (MAC) method has been leveraged to get a quantitative insight into the model considered. The effect of the wall absorption parameter on the concentration of all drug forms (free as well as two-phase bound) has been thoroughly investigated, and some other important factors, such as the averaged concentration, the tissue content, the fractional effect, the concentration variance and the effectiveness of drug have been graphically analyzed to gain a clear understanding of endovascular delivery. The simulated results predict that with increasing values of the absorption parameter, the averaged concentrations of all drug forms do decrease. An early saturation of binding sites takes place for smaller values of the absorption parameter, and also rapid saturation of ECM binding sites occurs as compared to receptor binding sites. Results also predict the influence of surface roughness as well as asymmetry of the domain about the centerline on the distribution and retention of drug. A thorough sensitivity analysis has been carried out to determine the influence of some parameters involved.
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Colombo M, Corti A, Berceli S, Migliavacca F, McGinty S, Chiastra C. 3D modelling of drug-coated balloons for the treatment of calcified superficial femoral arteries. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256783. [PMID: 34634057 PMCID: PMC8504744 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Background/Objectives Drug-coated balloon therapy for diseased superficial femoral arteries remains controversial. Despite its clinical relevance, only a few computational studies based on simplistic two-dimensional models have been proposed to investigate this endovascular therapy to date. This work addresses the aforementioned limitation by analyzing the drug transport and kinetics occurring during drug-coated balloon deployment in a three-dimensional geometry. Methods An idealized three-dimensional model of a superficial femoral artery presenting with a calcific plaque and treated with a drug-coated balloon was created to perform transient mass transport simulations. To account for the transport of drug (i.e. paclitaxel) released by the device, a diffusion-reaction equation was implemented by describing the drug bound to specific intracellular receptors through a non-linear, reversible reaction. The following features concerning procedural aspects, pathologies and modelling assumptions were investigated: (i) balloon application time (60–180 seconds); (ii) vessel wall composition (healthy vs. calcified wall); (iii) sequential balloon application; and (iv) drug wash-out by the blood stream vs. coating retention, modeled as exponential decay. Results The balloon inflation time impacted both the free and specifically-bound drug concentrations in the vessel wall. The vessel wall composition highly affected the drug concentrations. In particular, the specifically-bound drug concentration was four orders of magnitude lower in the calcific compared with healthy vessel wall portions, primarily as a result of reduced drug diffusion. The sequential application of two drug-coated balloons led to modest differences (~15%) in drug concentration immediately after inflation, which became negligible within 10 minutes. The retention of the balloon coating increased the drug concentration in the vessel wall fourfold. Conclusions The overall findings suggest that paclitaxel kinetics may be affected not only by the geometrical and compositional features of the vessel treated with the drug-coated balloon, but also by balloon design characteristics and procedural aspects that should be carefully considered.
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- Monika Colombo
- Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Malcom Randall VAMC, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
- Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America
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- Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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- Laboratory of Biological Structure Mechanics (LaBS), Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
- PoliToMed Lab, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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SARIFUDDIN, ALSEMIRY REIMAD, MANDAL PRASHANTAKUMAR. EFFECTS OF COATING PROPERTIES ON CONTROLLED DELIVERY FROM AN EMBEDDED DRUG-ELUTING STENT: A SIMULATION STUDY. J BIOL SYST 2021. [DOI: 10.1142/s0218339021500145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The present investigation deals with the effects of biodegradable, biodurable and polymer-free coating of a stent on the release mechanism of the drug in a porous medium. The Brinkman equations for the interstitial fluid, the unsteady convection-diffusion-reaction equation for the transport of free drug in the tissue and the unsteady reaction equations for the bound as well as the internalized drug have been considered. In the coating, the transport of drug has been modeled as a diffusion process. Effects of different percentages of the embedment, convection and various coating properties of the stent on the transport of free drug, its retention and the internalization of the bound drug have been studied. Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) in the staggered grid formulation (IBM-MAC) has been used to tackle numerically the system of nonlinear governing equations. Simulated results predict the fastest release of drug from a biodegradable coating, but the averaged concentrations of all drug forms do reach a quasi-steady state in case of a biodurable coating irrespective of the degrees of embedment. Moreover, for all embedment levels of the stent, a biodegradable coating is superior to that of biodurable and polymer-free coating in the presence/absence of convection for larger times, but this superiority is lost for smaller times. Unlike biodurable coating, it is also predicted that the more the embedment level does not necessarily imply the more the effectiveness of delivery for biodegradable and polymer-free coatings of a stent.
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- SARIFUDDIN
- Department of Mathematics, Berhampore College, P.O.-Berhampore, Dist.-Murshidabad, WB 742101, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Taibah University, P.O. Box 89, Yanbu 41911, Saudi Arabia
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia
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Gagliardi M. Numerical analysis of paclitaxel-eluting coronary stents: Mechanics and drug release properties. Med Eng Phys 2020; 82:78-85. [PMID: 32709268 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2020.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2019] [Revised: 04/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Since theoretical models provide data that cannot be otherwise gathered, numerical methods applied to medical devices analysis have emerged as fundamental tool in preclinical development. Large efforts were done to study mechanical and drug-eluting properties in stents but often the coating modelling is neglected. This work presents a finite element framework to calculate mechanical loads and drug distribution in three commercial drug-eluting stents (Palmaz-Schatz, Palmaz Genesis and Multi Link Vision), to check coatings strength and drug distribution maps in biological tissues. The promising copolymer poly(methylmethacrylate-co-n-butylmethacrylate), loaded with paclitaxel, is analyzed. Results demonstrated that the coating undergoes localized plastic phenomena, and calculated stresses are lower than the ultimate stress, ensuring coating integrity. Computed drug concentration depends on stent geometry and its values are in all cases lower than the toxicity level for this drug.
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Sarifuddin, Roy S, Mandal PK. Computational model of stent-based delivery from a half-embedded two-layered coating. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2020; 23:815-831. [PMID: 32588648 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2020.1767775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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An attempt is made in the present investigation to develop a computational model for the purpose of studying the effect of interstitial flow in the porous media on the distribution of drug eluted from a half-embedded drug-eluting stent and its retention in the presence of two-layered coating of the stent. The transport of free drug inside the coatings is considered as an unsteady diffusion process while that in the tissue as an unsteady convection-diffusion-reaction process. The bound drug is governed by an unsteady reaction process only. Immersed boundary method (IBM) in the staggered grid formulation, popularly known as marker and cell (MAC) method, has been leveraged to tackle numerically the governing equations. This model highlights the benefits of consideration of two-layered coating and does predict underlying mechanism for better efficacy by tweaking the kinetics parameters. Comparisons are also made with the results available for stent-based delivery.
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- Sarifuddin
- Department of Mathematics, Berhampore College, Berhampore, West Bengal, India
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
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Shirazi RN, Islam S, Weafer FM, Whyte W, Varela CE, Villanyi A, Ronan W, McHugh P, Roche ET. Multiscale Experimental and Computational Modeling Approaches to Characterize Therapy Delivery to the Heart from an Implantable Epicardial Biomaterial Reservoir. Adv Healthc Mater 2019; 8:e1900228. [PMID: 31322319 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201900228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2019] [Revised: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Delivery of therapeutic-laden biomaterials to the epicardial surface of the heart presents a promising method of treating a variety of diseased conditions by offering targeted, localized release with limited systemic recirculation and enhanced myocardial tissue uptake. A vast range of biomaterials and therapeutic agents using this approach been investigated. However, the fundamental factors that govern transport of the drug molecules from the biomaterials to the tissue are not well understood. Here, the transport of a drug analog from a biomaterial reservoir to the epicardial surface is characterized using experimental techniques and microscale modeling. Using the experimentally determined parameters, a multiscale model of transport is developed. The model is then used to study the effect of important design parameters such as loading conditions, biomaterial geometry, and orientation relative to the cardiac fibers on drug delivery to the myocardium. The simulations highlight the significance of the cardiac fiber anisotropy as a crucial factor in governing drug distribution on the epicardial surface and limiting factor for penetration into the myocardium. The multiscale model can be useful for rapid iteration of different device concepts and for determination of designs for epicardial drug delivery that may be optimal and most promising for the ultimate therapeutic goal.
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- Reyhaneh Neghabat Shirazi
- Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics(NUI Galway) Galway H91 HX31 Ireland
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- Department of Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
- Institute for Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics(NUI Galway) Galway H91 HX31 Ireland
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Institute for Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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- Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics(NUI Galway) Galway H91 HX31 Ireland
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- Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics(NUI Galway) Galway H91 HX31 Ireland
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- Discipline of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Informatics(NUI Galway) Galway H91 HX31 Ireland
- Department of Mechanical EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
- Institute for Medical Engineering and ScienceMassachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA 02139 USA
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Saha R, Mandal PK. Modelling Time-dependent Release Kinetics in Stent-based Delivery. JOURNAL OF EXPLORATORY RESEARCH IN PHARMACOLOGY 2018; 3:61-70. [DOI: 10.14218/jerp.2018.00001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Effect of Interstitial Fluid Flow on Drug-Coated Balloon Delivery in a Patient-Specific Arterial Vessel with Heterogeneous Tissue Composition: A Simulation Study. Cardiovasc Eng Technol 2018; 9:251-267. [PMID: 29508375 DOI: 10.1007/s13239-018-0345-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 02/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Angioplasty with drug-coated balloons (DCBs) using excipients as drug carriers is emerging as a potentially viable strategy demonstrating clinical efficacy and proposing additional compliance for the treatment of obstructive vascular diseases. An attempt is made to develop an improved computational model where attention has been paid to the effect of interstitial flow, that is, plasma convection and internalization of bound drug. The present model is capable of capturing the phenomena of the transport of free drug and its retention, and also the internalization of drug in the process of endocytosis to atherosclerotic vessel of heterogeneous tissue composition comprising of healthy tissue, as well as regions of fibrous cap, fibro-fatty, calcified and necrotic core lesions. Image processing based on an unsupervised clustering technique is used for color-based segmentation of a patient-specific longitudinal image of atherosclerotic vessel obtained from intravascular ultrasound derived virtual histology. As the residence time of drug in a stent-based delivery within the arterial tissue is strongly influenced by convective forces, effect of interstitial fluid flow in case of DCB delivery can not be ruled out, and has been investigated by modeling it through unsteady Navier-Stokes equations. Transport of free drug is modeled by considering unsteady advection-reaction-diffusion process, while the bound drug, assuming completely immobilized in the tissue, by unsteady reaction process. The model also takes into account the internalization of drug through the process of endocytosis which gets degraded by the lysosomes and finally recycled into the extracellular fluid. All the governing equations representing the flow of interstitial fluid, the transport of free drug, the metabolization of free drug into bound phase and the process of internalization along with the physiologically realistic boundary and initial conditions are solved numerically using marker and cell method satisfying necessary stability criteria. Simulated results obtained predict that faster drug transfer promotes rapid saturation of binding sites despite perivascular wash out and the concentrations of all drug forms are modulated by the presence of interstitial flow. Such premier attempt of its kind would certainly be of great help in the optimization of therapeutic efficacy of drug.
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