Effect of intimal flap motion on flow in acute type B aortic dissection by using fluid-structure interaction.
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
A monolithic, fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) computational framework was developed to account for dissection flap motion in acute type B aortic dissection (TBAD). Analysis of results included wall deformation, pressure, flow, wall shear stress (WSS), von. Mises stress and comparison of hemodynamics between rigid wall and FSI models. Our FSI model mimicked realistic wall deformation that resulted in maximum compression of the distal true lumen (TL) by 21.4%. The substantial movement of intimal flap mostly affected flow conditions in the false lumen (FL). Flap motion facilitated more flow entering the FL at peak systole, with the TL to FL flow split changing from 88:12 in the rigid model to 83:17 in the FSI model. There was more disturbed flow in the FL during systole (5.8% FSI vs. 5.2% rigid) and diastole (13.5% FSI vs. 9.8% rigid), via a λ2 -criterion. The flap-induced disturbed flow near the tears in the FSI model caused an increase of local WSS by up to 70.0% during diastole. This resulted in a significant reduction in the size of low time-averaged WSS (TAWSS) regions in the FL (113.11 cm2 FSI vs. 177.44 cm2 rigid). Moreover, the FSI model predicted lower systolic pressure, higher diastolic pressure, and hence lower pulse pressure. Our results provided new insights into the possible impact of flap motion on flow in aortic dissections, which are particularly important when evaluating hemodynamics of acute TBAD. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Date Issued
2020-12
Date Acceptance
2020-08-25
Citation
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2020, 36 (12), pp.1-22
ISSN
1069-8299
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Start Page
1
End Page
22
Journal / Book Title
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
Volume
36
Issue
12
Copyright Statement
© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article, which has been published in final form at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cnm.3399. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
Sponsor
The Royal Society
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32862487
Grant Number
NA170094
Subjects
Aortic dissection (AD)
computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
intimal flap motion
wall elasticity
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Article Number
ARTN e3399
Date Publish Online
2020-08-30