Numerical Investigation of the Effects of Prosthetic Aortic Valve Design on Aortic Hemodynamic Characteristics

Autor: Joon-Hock Yeo, Xiao-Qin Shen, Ya-Li Su, Hai Huang, Guangyu Zhu, Cheng-Fu Yang
Přispěvatelé: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Aortic valve
Materials science
single point attached commissures
Flow distribution
0206 medical engineering
Hemodynamics
02 engineering and technology
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
lcsh:Technology
lcsh:Chemistry
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine.artery
Ascending aorta
Single Point Attached Commissures
helical flow
Shear stress
medicine
General Materials Science
Prosthetic Aortic Valve
lcsh:QH301-705.5
Instrumentation
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Aorta
hemodynamic environments
lcsh:T
Process Chemistry and Technology
General Engineering
Secondary flow
wall shear stress
020601 biomedical engineering
prosthetic aortic valve
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
medicine.anatomical_structure
vortex
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
lcsh:TA1-2040
Descending aorta
Mechanical engineering [Engineering]
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
lcsh:Physics
Biomedical engineering
Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 10, Iss 4, p 1396 (2020)
Applied Sciences
Volume 10
Issue 4
ISSN: 2076-3417
DOI: 10.3390/app10041396
Popis: The superior performance of single-point attached commissures (SPAC) molded valve design has been validated by several numerical, in vitro and in vivo animal studies. However, the impacts of the SPAC molded valve design on aortic hemodynamic environments are yet to be investigated. In this study, multiscale computational models were prepared by virtually implanting prosthetic aortic valves with SPAC tubular, SPAC molded and conventional designs into a patient-specific aorta, respectively. The impacts of the valve designs on efferent flow distribution, flow pattern and hemodynamic characteristics in the aorta were numerically investigated. The results showed that despite the overall flow phenomena being similar, the SPAC tubular valve exhibited a suboptimal performance in terms of higher spatially averaged wall shear stress (SAWSS) in ascending aorta (AAo), higher helix grade, stronger secondary flow mean secondary velocity in descending aorta, as well as more complex vortex distribution. The results from the current study extend the understanding of hemodynamic impacts of the valve designs, which would further benefit the optimization of the prosthetic aortic valve. Published version
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