Normative ranges of nasal airflow variables in healthy adults.

Autor: Borojeni AAT; Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University & The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA., Garcia GJM; Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA. ggarcia@mcw.edu.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University & The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA. ggarcia@mcw.edu., Moghaddam MG; Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.; Department of Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University & The Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA., Frank-Ito DO; Division of Head and Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.; Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA., Kimbell JS; Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, USA., Laud PW; Division of Biostatistics, Institute for Health and Society, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA., Koenig LJ; Department of Oral Medicine and Oral Radiology, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, WI, USA., Rhee JS; Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences, Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI, 53226, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery [Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg] 2020 Jan; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 87-98. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Jul 02.
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-019-02023-y
Abstrakt: Purpose: Virtual surgery planning based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of nasal airflow has the potential to improve surgical outcomes for patients with nasal airway obstruction (NAO). Virtual surgery planning requires normative ranges of airflow variables, but few studies to date have quantified inter-individual variability of nasal airflow among healthy subjects. This study reports CFD simulations of nasal airflow in 47 healthy adults.
Methods: Anatomically accurate three-dimensional nasal models were reconstructed from cone beam computed tomography scans and used for steady-state inspiratory airflow simulations with a bilateral flowrate of 250 ml/s. Normal subjective sensation of nasal patency was confirmed using the nasal obstruction symptom evaluation and visual analog scale. Healthy ranges for several CFD variables known to correlate with subjective nasal patency were computed, including unilateral airflow, nasal resistance, airspace minimal cross-sectional area (mCSA), heat flux (HF), and surface area stimulated by mucosal cooling (defined as the area where HF > 50 W/m 2 ). The normative ranges were targeted to contain 95% of the healthy population and computed using a nonparametric method based on order statistics.
Results: A wide range of inter-individual variability in nasal airflow was observed among healthy subjects. Unilateral airflow varied from 60 to 191 ml/s, airflow partitioning ranged from 23.8 to 76.2%, and unilateral mCSA varied from 0.24 to 1.21 cm 2 . These ranges are in good agreement with rhinomanometry and acoustic rhinometry data from the literature. A key innovation of this study are the normative ranges of flow variables associated with mucosal cooling, which recent research suggests is the primary physiological mechanism of nasal airflow sensation. Unilateral HF ranged from 94 to 281 W/m 2 , while the surface area stimulated by cooling ranged from 27.4 to 64.3 cm 2 .
Conclusions: These normative ranges may serve as targets in future virtual surgery planning for patients with NAO.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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