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Simulation of transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a patient-specific finite element approach.
Auricchio, F; Conti, M; Morganti, S; Reali, A.
Afiliação
  • Auricchio F; a Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Architettura (DICAr) , Università degli Studi di Pavia , Via Ferrata 1, 27100, Pavia , Italy.
Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin ; 17(12): 1347-57, 2014.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23402555
ABSTRACT
Until recently, heart valve failure has been treated adopting open-heart surgical techniques and cardiopulmonary bypass. However, over the last decade, minimally invasive procedures have been developed to avoid high risks associated with conventional open-chest valve replacement techniques. Such a recent and innovative procedure represents an optimal field for conducting investigations through virtual computer-based simulations in fact, nowadays, computational engineering is widely used to unravel many problems in the biomedical field of cardiovascular mechanics and specifically, minimally invasive procedures. In this study, we investigate a balloon-expandable valve and we propose a novel simulation strategy to reproduce its implantation using computational tools. Focusing on the Edwards SAPIEN valve in particular, we simulate both stent crimping and deployment through balloon inflation. The developed procedure enabled us to obtain the entire prosthetic device virtually implanted in a patient-specific aortic root created by processing medical images; hence, it allows evaluation of postoperative prosthesis performance depending on different factors (e.g. device size and prosthesis placement site). Notably, prosthesis positioning in two different cases (distal and proximal) has been examined in terms of coaptation area, average stress on valve leaflets as well as impact on the aortic root wall. The coaptation area is significantly affected by the positioning strategy (- 24%, moving from the proximal to distal) as well as the stress distribution on both the leaflets (+13.5%, from proximal to distal) and the aortic wall (- 22%, from proximal to distal). No remarkable variations of the stress state on the stent struts have been obtained in the two investigated cases.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Valva Aórtica / Implante de Prótese de Valva Cardíaca / Análise de Elementos Finitos Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin Ano de publicação: 2014 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Valva Aórtica / Implante de Prótese de Valva Cardíaca / Análise de Elementos Finitos Tipo de estudo: Diagnostic_studies / Prognostic_studies Limite: Humans / Male / Middle aged Idioma: En Revista: Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin Ano de publicação: 2014 Tipo de documento: Article