A comparison of hemodynamic metrics and intraluminal thrombus burden in a common iliac artery aneurysm
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Kelsey, LJ
Powell, JT
Norman, PE
Miller, K
Doyle, BJ
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Aneurysms of the common iliac artery (CIAA) are typically found in association with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Isolated CIAAs, in the absence of an AAA, are uncommon. Similar to AAAs, CIAA may develop intraluminal thrombus (ILT). As isolated CIAAs have a contralateral common iliac artery for comparison, they provide an opportunity to study the hemodynamic mechanisms behind ILT formation. In this study, we compared a large isolated CIAA and the contralateral iliac artery using computational fluid dynamics to determine if hemodynamic metrics correlate with the location of ILT. We performed a comprehensive computational fluid dynamics study and investigated the residence time of platelets and monocytes, velocity fields, time-averaged wall shear stress, oscillatory shear index, and endothelial cell activation potential. We then correlated these data to ILT burden determined with computed tomography. We found that high cell residence times, low time-averaged wall shear stress, high oscillatory shear index, and high endothelial cell activation potential all correlate with regions of ILT development. Our results show agreement with previous hypotheses of thrombus formation in AAA and provide insights into the computational hemodynamics of iliac artery aneurysms.
Date Issued
2016-08-10
Date Acceptance
2016-07-02
Citation
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2016, 33 (5)
ISSN
2040-7947
Publisher
Wiley
Journal / Book Title
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering
Volume
33
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the accepted version of the following article: Kelsey, L. J., Powell, J. T., Norman, P. E., Miller, K., and Doyle, B. J. (2016) A comparison of hemodynamic metrics and intraluminal thrombus burden in a common iliac artery aneurysm. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Biomed. Engng., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cnm.2821.
Sponsor
Department of Health
Grant Number
07/37/64
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Physical Sciences
Engineering, Biomedical
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Engineering
Mathematics
computational fluid dynamics
iliac aneurysm
intraluminal thrombus
wall shear stress
ABDOMINAL AORTIC-ANEURYSMS
COMPUTATIONAL FLUID-DYNAMICS
FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE
PROGRESSIVE ENLARGEMENT
PLATELET ACTIVATION
SHEAR-STRESS
BLOOD-FLOW
DEPOSITION
LOCATION
BIOMECHANICS
01 Mathematical Sciences
09 Engineering
Applied Mathematics
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
e2821