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High precision invasive FFR, low-cost invasive iFR, or non-invasive CFR?: optimum assessment of coronary artery stenosis based on the patient-specific computational models

Tajeddini, F ; Sharif University of Technology | 2020

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1002/cnm.3382
  3. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell , 2020
  4. Abstract:
  5. The objective of this paper is to apply computational fluid dynamic (CFD) as a complementary tool for clinical tests to not only predict the present and future status of left coronary artery stenosis but also to evaluate some clinical hypotheses. In order to assess the present status of the coronary artery stenosis severity, and thereby selecting the most appropriate type of treatment for each patient, fractional flow reserve (FFR), instantaneous wave free-ratio (iFR), and coronary flow reserve (CFR) are calculated. To examine FFR, iFR, and CFR results, the effect of geometric features of stenoses, including diameter reduction (%), lesion length (LL), and minimum lumen diameter (MLD), is studied on them. It is observed that FFR is a more conservative index than iFR and CFR to assess the severity of coronary stenosis. In addition, it is seen that FFR, iFR, and CFR decrease by increasing LL and decreasing MLD. Therefore, the morphological indices, LL/MLD and LL/MLD̂4, with the calculated conservative cut-off values equal to 5.5 and 3.6, are considered. Next, some controversial clinical hypotheses about the assessment of the severity of coronary stenosis are evaluated numerically. These include the examination of FFR, iFR, and CFR accuracies, investigating the effect of coronary hyperemia on iFR, as well as the reliability of the hybrid iFR-FFR decision-making strategy. The presented numerical model can also be used as a predictive tool to identify the atherosuseptible sites of arteries by calculating the time-averaged wall shear stress (TAWSS), oscillatory shear index (OSI), and relative residence time (RRT). © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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  7. CFD ; CFR ; coronary ; FFR ; Hemodynamics ; IFR ; Computational fluid dynamics ; Costs ; Decision making ; Patient treatment ; Shear stress ; Complementary tools ; Computational model ; Coronary artery stenosis ; Coronary flow reserves ; Decision-making strategies ; Fractional flow reserves ; Left coronary arteries ; Oscillatory shear index ; Heart
  8. Source: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering ; Volume 36, Issue 10 , 2020
  9. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cnm.3382