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Lucca A, Fraccarollo L, Fossan FE, Bråten AT, Pozzi S, Vergara C, Müller LO. Impact of Pressure Guidewire on Model-Based FFR Prediction. Cardiovasc Eng Technol 2024; 15:251-263. [PMID: 38438691 PMCID: PMC11239750 DOI: 10.1007/s13239-024-00710-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/06/2024]
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INTRODUCTION Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) is used to characterize the functional significance of coronary artery stenoses. FFR is assessed under hyperemic conditions by invasive measurements of trans-stenotic pressure thanks to the insertion of a pressure guidewire across the coronary stenosis during catheterization. In order to overcome the potential risk related to the invasive procedure and to reduce the associated high costs, three-dimensional blood flow simulations that incorporate clinical imaging and patient-specific characteristics have been proposed. PURPOSE Most CCTA-derived FFR models neglect the potential influence of the guidewire on computed flow and pressure. Here we aim to quantify the impact of taking into account the presence of the guidewire in model-based FFR prediction. METHODS We adopt a CCTA-derived FFR model and perform simulations with and without the guidewire for 18 patients with suspected stable CAD. RESULTS Presented results show that the presence of the guidewire leads to a tendency to predict a lower FFR value. The FFR reduction is prominent in cases of severe stenoses, while the influence of the guidewire is less pronounced in cases of moderate stenoses. CONCLUSION From a clinical decision-making point of view, including of the pressure guidewire is potentially relevant only for intermediate stenosis cases.
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- Alessia Lucca
- Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, 38123, Trento, Italy.
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- Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Cardiology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- MOX, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- LABS, Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive, 14, 38123, Trento, Italy
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Qiao X, Zhang R, Yu J, Yan Y, Bouakaz A, Su X, Liu J, Zong Y, Wan M. Noninvasive assessment of pressure distribution and fractional flow in middle cerebral artery using microbubbles and plane wave in vitro. ULTRASONICS 2024; 138:107244. [PMID: 38237398 DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2024.107244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/02/2024]
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Fractional flow has been proposed for quantifying the degree of functional stenosis in cerebral arteries. Herein, subharmonic aided pressure estimation (SHAPE) combined with plane wave (PW) transmission was employed to noninvasively estimate the pressure distribution and fractional flow in the middle cerebral artery (MCA) in vitro. Consequently, the effects of incident sound pressure (peak negative pressures of 86-653 kPa), pulse repetition frequency (PRF), number of pulses, and blood flow rate on the subharmonic pressure relationship were investigated. The radio frequency data were stored and beamformed offline, and the subharmonic amplitude over a 0.4 MHz bandwidth was extracted using a 12-cycle PW at 4 MHz. The optimal incident sound pressure was 217 kPa without skull (sensitivity = 0.09 dB/mmHg; r2 = 0.997) and 410 kPa with skull (median sensitivity = 0.06 dB/mmHg; median r2 = 0.981). The optimal PRF was 500 Hz, as this value affords the highest sensitivity (0.09 dB/mmHg; r2 = 0.976) and temporal resolution. In addition, the blood flow rate exhibited a lesser effect on the subharmonic pressure relationship in our experimental setup. Using the optimized parameters, the blood pressure distribution and fractional flow (FFs) were measured. As such, the FFs value was in high agreement with the value measured using the pressure sensor (FFm). The mean ± standard deviations of the FF difference (FFm - FFs) were 0.03 ± 0.06 without skull and 0.01 ± 0.05 with skull.
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- Xiaoyang Qiao
- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- UMR 1253, iBrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China.
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- Xi'an Jiaotong University, College of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an, China.
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A Computational Analysis of the Influence of a Pressure Wire in Evaluating Coronary Stenosis. FLUIDS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/fluids6040165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Cardiovascular disease is one of the world’s leading causes of morbidity and mortality. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) was proposed in the 1990s to more accurately evaluate the functional severity of intermediate coronary stenosis, and it is currently the gold standard in cardiac catheterization laboratories where coronary pressure and flow are routinely obtained. The clinical measurement of FFR relies on a pressure wire for the recording of pressures; however, in computational fluid dynamics studies, an FFR is frequently predicted using a wire-absent model. We aim to investigate the influence of the physical presence of a 0.014-inch (≈0.36 mm) pressure wire in the calculation of virtual FFR. Ideal and patient-specific models were simulated with the absence and presence of a pressure wire. The computed FFR reduced from 0.96 to 0.93 after inserting a wire in a 3-mm non-stenosed (pipe) ideal model. In mild stenotic cases, the difference in FFR between the wire-absent and wire-included models was slight. The overestimation in severe case was large but is of less clinical significance because, in practice, this tight lesion does not require sophisticated measurement to be considered critical. However, an absence of the pressure wire in simulations could contribute to an over-evaluation for an intermediate coronary stenosis.
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Reduced-order modeling of blood flow for noninvasive functional evaluation of coronary artery disease. Biomech Model Mechanobiol 2019; 18:1867-1881. [DOI: 10.1007/s10237-019-01182-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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D'Souza GA, Banerjee RK, Taylor MD. Evaluation of pulmonary artery stenosis in congenital heart disease patients using functional diagnostic parameters: An in vitro study. J Biomech 2018; 81:58-67. [PMID: 30293825 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2018.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2018] [Revised: 07/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Congenital pulmonary artery (PA) stenosis is often associated with abnormal PA hemodynamics including increased pressure drop (Δp) and reduced asymmetric flow (Q), which may result in right ventricular dysfunction. We propose functional diagnostic parameters, pressure drop coefficient (CDP), energy loss (Eloss), and normalized energy loss (E¯loss) to characterize pulmonary hemodynamics, and evaluate their efficacy in delineating stenosis severity using in vitro experiments. Subject-specific test sections including the main PA (MPA) bifurcating into left and right PAs (LPA, RPA) with a discrete LPA stenosis were manufactured from cross-sectional imaging and 3D printing. Three clinically-relevant stenosis severities, 90% area stenosis (AS), 80% AS, and 70% AS, were evaluated at different cardiac outputs (COs). A benchtop flow loop simulating pulmonary hemodynamics was used to measure Q and Δp within the test sections. The experimental Δp-Q characteristics along with clinical data were used to obtain pathophysiologic conditions and compute the diagnostic parameters. The pathophysiologic QLPA decreased as the stenosis severity increased at a fixed CO. CDPLPA, Eloss,LPA (absolute), and E¯loss,LPA (absolute) increased with an increase in LPA stenosis severity at a fixed CO. Importantly, CDPLPA and E¯loss,LPA had reduced variability with CO, and distinct values for each LPA stenosis severity. Under variable CO, a) CDPLPA values were 14.5-21.0 (70% AS), 60.7- 2.2 (80% AS), ≥ 261.6 (90% AS), and b) E¯loss,LPA values (in mJ per QLPA) were -501.9 to -1023.8 (70% AS), -1247.6 to -1773.0 (80% AS), -1934.5 (90% AS). Hence, CDPLPA and E¯loss,LPA are expected to assess the true functional severity of PA stenosis.
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- Gavin A D'Souza
- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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- The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
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GOVINDARAJU KALIMUTHU, VISWANATHAN GIRISHN, BADRUDDIN IRFANANJUM, WELDEMARIAM SIRAKAREGAWI, GEBREHIWOT WOLDUZINA, KAMANGAR SARFARAZ. THE MECHANICAL FACTORS INFLUENCING THE ASSESSMENT OF INTERMEDIATE STENOSIS SEVERITY EXPLAINED THROUGH FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE. J MECH MED BIOL 2017. [DOI: 10.1142/s0219519417300010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Assessment of intermediate coronary lesions with diameter stenosis of 40% to 70% severity is being a challenge for cardiologist to identify potentially ischemic stenosis for revascularization and nonculprit stenosis which can be deferred from stenting. An invasive coronary angiography and intravascular ultrasound provide anatomic information of stenosis severity whereas an invasive fractional flow reserve index (FFR) provides the functional significance of the stenosis severity. The measurement of functional significance of stenosis severity minimizes the procedural complications such as coronary dissection, in stent restenosis etc. rather than anatomical significance measure. The FFR cutoff value of [Formula: see text]0.8 is used to distinguish ischemic and nonischemic stenosis. The FFR is clinically well validated even though it is influenced by the mechanical factors such as hyperemic flow and guide wire insertion. In recent times, noninvasive coronary computed tomography (CCTA) modality has become popular in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. The CCTA permits the assessment of cross-sectional parameters such as minimum lumen area and lumen diameter, lesion length and plaque morphology. However, the CCTA provides limited information on the functional significance of stenotic lesions as compared to FFR. The purpose of this review is to discuss the mechanical factors influencing the invasive FFR while assessing the functional significance of intermediate stenosis severity. In addition, the hidden mechanical factors influencing the noninvasive CCTA assessment of stenosis severity will be discussed from the critical information obtained from FFR which could be beneficial for the clinician particularly in the assessment of intermediate stenosis severity.
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- KALIMUTHU GOVINDARAJU
- Ethiopian Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Ethiopian Institute of Technology, School of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Malaya, Malaysia
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Tian X, Sun A, Liu X, Pu F, Deng X, Kang H, Fan Y. Influence of catheter insertion on the hemodynamic environment in coronary arteries. Med Eng Phys 2016; 38:946-51. [PMID: 27394085 DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2016.06.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2016] [Revised: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/08/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Intravascular stenting is one of the most commonly used treatments to restore the vascular lumen and flow conditions, while perioperative complications such as thrombosis and restenosis are still nagging for patients. As the catheter with crimped stent and folded balloon is directly advanced through coronary artery during surgery, it is destined to cause interference as well as obstructive effect on blood flow. We wonder how the hemodynamic environment would be disturbed and weather these disturbances cause susceptible factors for those complications. Therefore, a realistic three-dimensional model of left coronary artery was reconstructed and blood flow patterns were numerically simulated at seven different stages in the catheter insertion process. The results revealed that the wall shear stress (WSS) and velocity in left anterior descending (LAD) were both significantly increased after catheter inserted into LAD. Besides, the WSS on the catheter, especially at the ending of the catheter, was also at high level. Compared with the condition before catheter inserted, the endothelial cells of LAD was exposed to high-WSS condition and the risk of platelet aggregation in blood flow was increased. These influences may make coronary arteries more vulnerable for perioperative complications.
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- Xiaopeng Tian
- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China.
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, International Joint Research Center of Aerospace Biotechnology & Medical Engineering, Ministry of Science and Technology, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, 100191 Beijing, China.
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Govindaraju K, Viswanathan GN, Badruddin IA, Kamangar S, Salman Ahmed NJ, Al-Rashed AAAA. The influence of artery wall curvature on the anatomical assessment of stenosis severity derived from fractional flow reserve: a computational fluid dynamics study. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2016; 19:1541-9. [PMID: 27052093 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2016.1170119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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This study aims to investigate the influence of artery wall curvature on the anatomical assessment of stenosis severity and to identify a region of misinterpretation in the assessment of per cent area stenosis (AS) for functionally significant stenosis using fractional flow reserve (FFR) as standard. Five artery models of different per cent AS severity (70, 75, 80, 85 and 90%) were considered. For each per cent AS severity, the angle of curvature of the arterial wall varied from straight to an increasingly curved model (0°, 30°, 60°, 90° and 120°). Computational fluid dynamics was performed under transient physiologic hyperemic flow conditions to investigate the influence of artery wall curvature on the pressure drop and the FFR. The findings in this study may be useful in in vitro anatomical assessment of functionally significant stenosis. The FFR decreased with increasing stenosis severity for a given curvature of the artery wall. Moreover, a significant decrease in FFR was found between straight and curved models discussed for a given severity condition. These findings indicate that the curvature effect was included in the FFR assessment in contrast to minimum lumen area (MLA) or per cent AS assessment. The MLA or per cent AS assessment may lead to underestimation of stenosis severity. From this numerical study, an uncertainty region could be evaluated using the clinical FFR cutoff value of 0.8. This value was observed at 81.98 and 79.10% AS for arteries with curvature angles of 0° and 120° respectively. In conclusion, the curvature of the artery should not be neglected in in vitro anatomical assessment.
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- Kalimuthu Govindaraju
- a Centre for Engineering Programs , HELP College of Arts and Technology , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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- b Cardiology department , Derriford Hospital , Plymouth , UK.,c Institute of Cellular Medicine , Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne , UK
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- d Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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- d Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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- e Center for Energy Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering , University of Malaya , Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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- f Department of Automotive and Marine Engineering Technology , College of Technological Studies, The Public Authority for Applied Education and Training , Kuwait city , Kuwait
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Peelukhana SV, Kerr H, Kolli KK, Fernandez-Ulloa M, Gerson M, Effat M, Arif I, Helmy T, Banerjee R. Benefit of cardiac N-13 PET CFR for combined anatomical and functional diagnosis of ischemic coronary artery disease: a pilot study. Ann Nucl Med 2014; 28:746-60. [DOI: 10.1007/s12149-014-0869-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2014] [Accepted: 06/05/2014] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Banerjee RK, Peelukhana SV, Goswami I. Influence of newly designed monorail pressure sensor catheter on coronary diagnostic parameters: An in vitro study. J Biomech 2014; 47:617-24. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2013.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2013] [Revised: 12/01/2013] [Accepted: 12/06/2013] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Goswami I, Peelukhana SV, Al-Rjoub MF, Back LH, Banerjee RK. Influence of Variable Native Arterial Diameter and Vasculature Status on Coronary Diagnostic Parameters. J Biomech Eng 2013; 135:91005. [DOI: 10.1115/1.4024682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2012] [Accepted: 05/31/2013] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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In current practice, diagnostic parameters, such as fractional flow reserve (FFR) and coronary flow reserve (CFR), are used to determine the severity of a coronary artery stenosis. FFR is defined as the ratio of hyperemic pressures distal (p˜rh) and proximal (p˜ah) to a stenosis. CFR is the ratio of flow at hyperemic and basal condition. Another diagnostic parameter suggested by our group is the pressure drop coefficient (CDP). CDP is defined as the ratio of the pressure drop across the stenosis to the upstream dynamic pressure. These parameters are evaluated by invasively measuring flow (CFR), pressure (FFR), or both (CDP) in a diseased artery using guidewire tipped with a sensor. Pathologic state of artery is indicated by lower CFR (<2). Similarly, FFR lower than 0.75 leads to clinical intervention. Cutoff for CDP is under investigation. Diameter and vascular condition influence both flow and pressure drop, and thus, their effect on FFR and CDP was studied. In vitro experiment coupled with pressure-flow relationships from human clinical data was used to simulate pathophysiologic conditions in two representative arterial diameters, 2.5 mm (N1) and 3 mm (N2). With a 0.014 in. (0.35 mm) guidewire inserted, diagnostic parameters were evaluated for mild (∼64% area stenosis (AS)), intermediate (∼80% AS), and severe (∼90% AS) stenosis for both N1 and N2 arteries, and between two conditions, with and without myocardial infarction (MI). Arterial diameter did not influence FFR for clinically relevant cases of mild and intermediate stenosis (difference < 5%). Stenosis severity was underestimated due to higher FFR (mild: ∼9%, intermediate: ∼ 20%, severe: ∼ 30%) for MI condition because of lower pressure drops, and this may affect clinical decision making. CDP varied with diameter (mild: ∼20%, intermediate: ∼24%, severe: by 2.5 times), and vascular condition (mild: ∼35%, intermediate: ∼14%, severe: ∼ 9%). However, nonoverlapping range of CDP allowed better delineation of stenosis severities irrespective of diameter and vascular condition.
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- School of Dynamic Systems, Mechanical Engineering Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
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- School of Dynamic Systems, Mechanical Engineering Program, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221 e-mail:
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Peelukhana SV, Kolli KK, Leesar MA, Effat MA, Helmy TA, Arif I, Schneeberger EW, Succop P, Banerjee RK. Effect of myocardial contractility on hemodynamic end points under concomitant microvascular disease in a porcine model. Heart Vessels 2013; 29:97-109. [PMID: 23624760 DOI: 10.1007/s00380-013-0355-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2012] [Accepted: 04/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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In this study, coronary diagnostic parameters, pressure drop coefficient (CDP: ratio of trans-stenotic pressure drop to distal dynamic pressure), and lesion flow coefficient (LFC: ratio of % area stenosis (%AS) to the CDP at throat region), were evaluated to distinguish levels of %AS under varying contractility conditions, in the presence of microvascular disease (MVD). In 10 pigs, %AS and MVD were created using angioplasty balloons and 90-μm microspheres, respectively. Simultaneous measurements of pressure drop, left ventricular pressure (p), and velocity were obtained. Contractility was calculated as (dp/dt)max, categorized into low contractility <900 mmHg/s and high contractility >900 mmHg/s, and in each group, compared between %AS <50 and >50 using analysis of variance. In the presence of MVD, between the %AS <50 and >50 groups, values of CDP (71 ± 1.4 and 121 ± 1.3) and LFC (0.10 ± 0.04 and 0.19 ± 0.04) were significantly different (P < 0.05), under low-contractility conditions. A similar %AS trend was observed under high-contractility conditions (CDP: 18 ± 1.4 and 91 ± 1.4; LFC: 0.08 ± 0.04 and 0.25 ± 0.04). Under MVD conditions, similar to fractional flow reserve, CDP and LFC were not influenced by contractility.
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- Srikara Viswanath Peelukhana
- School of Dynamic Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 593 Rhodes Hall, Cincinnati, OH, 45220, USA
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Peelukhana SV, Banerjee RK, Kolli KK, Effat MA, Helmy TA, Leesar MA, Schneeberger EW, Succop P, Gottliebson W, Irif A. Effect of heart rate on hemodynamic endpoints under concomitant microvascular disease in a porcine model. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2012; 302:H1563-73. [PMID: 22287585 DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.01042.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Diagnosis of the ischemic power of epicardial stenosis with concomitant microvascular disease (MVD) is challenging during coronary interventions, especially under variable hemodynamic factors like heart rate (HR). The goal of this study is to assess the influence of variable HR and percent area stenosis (%AS) in the presence of MVD on pressure drop coefficient (CDP; ratio of transstenotic pressure drop to the distal dynamic pressure) and lesion flow coefficient (LFC; ratio of %AS to the CDP at the throat region). We hypothesize that CDP and LFC are independent of HR. %AS and MVD were created using angioplasty balloons and 90-μm microspheres, respectively. Simultaneous measurements of pressure drop (DP) and velocity were done in 11 Yorkshire pigs. Fractional flow reserve (FFR), CDP, and LFC were calculated for the groups HR < 120 and HR > 120 beats/min, %AS < 50 and %AS > 50, and additionally for DP < 14 and DP > 14 mmHg, and analyzed using regression and ANOVA analysis. Regression analysis showed independence between HR and the FFR, CDP, and LFC while it showed dependence between %AS and the FFR, CDP, and LFC. In the ANOVA analysis, for the HR < 120 beats/min and HR > 120 beats/min groups, the values of FFR (0.82 ± 0.02 and 0.82 ± 0.02), CDP (83.15 ± 26.19 and 98.62 ± 26.04), and LFC (0.16 ± 0.03 and 0.15 ± 0.03) were not significantly different (P > 0.05). However, for %AS < 50 and %AS > 50, the FFR (0.89 ± 0.02 and 0.75 ± 0.02), CDP (35.97 ± 25.79.10 and 143.80 ± 25.41), and LFC (0.09 ± 0.03 and 0.22 ± 0.03) were significantly different (P < 0.05). A similar trend was observed between the DP groups. Under MVD conditions, FFR, CDP, and LFC were not significantly influenced by changes in HR, while they can significantly distinguish %AS and DP groups.
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- S V Peelukhana
- School of Dynamic Systems, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220, USA
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Peelukhana SV, Back LH, Banerjee RK. Influence of coronary collateral flow on coronary diagnostic parameters: an in vitro study. J Biomech 2009; 42:2753-9. [PMID: 19775695 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2009] [Revised: 07/30/2009] [Accepted: 08/01/2009] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Functional severity of coronary stenosis is often assessed using diagnostic parameters. These parameters are evaluated from the combined pressure and/or flow measurements taken at the site of the stenosis. However, when there are functional collaterals operating downstream to the stenosis, the coronary flow-rate increases, and the pressure in the stenosed artery is altered. This effect of downstream collaterals on different diagnostic parameters is studied using a physiological representative in vitro coronary flow-loop. The three diagnostic parameters tested are fractional flow reserve (FFR), lesion flow coefficient (LFC), and pressure drop coefficient (CDP). The latter two were discussed in recent publications by our group (Banerjee et al., 2007, 2008, 2009). They are evaluated for three different severities of stenosis and tested for possible misinterpretation in the presence of variable collateral flows. Pressure and flow are measured with and without downstream collaterals. The diagnostic parameters are then calculated from these readings. In the case of intermediate stenosis (80% area blockage), FFR and LFC increased from 0.74 to 0.77 and 0.58 to 0.62, respectively, for no collateral to fully developed collateral flow. Also, CDP decreased from 47 to 42 for no collateral to fully developed collateral flow. These changes in diagnostic parameters might lead to erroneous postponement of coronary intervention. Thus, variability in diagnostic parameters for the same stenosis might lead to misinterpretation of stenosis severity in the presence of operating downstream collaterals.
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