Key result
Coupled contraction-wave modeling accurately estimates clinical FFR within ~0.04 across stenosis severities.
Why the study?
Can a coupled microstructure-based heart contraction and 1D arterial wave propagation model accurately simulate coronary hemodynamics in healthy and diseased states (epicardial stenosis and left ventricular hypertrophy with aortic valve stenosis)?
Can a coupled microstructure-based heart contraction and 1D arterial wave propagation model accurately simulate coronary hemodynamics in healthy and diseased states (epicardial stenosis and left ventricular hypertrophy with aortic valve stenosis)?
Coupling a microstructure-based cardiac contraction model with a 1D wave propagation model enables realistic simulation of patient-specific epicardial and microvascular coronary hemodynamics in both coronary stenosis and aortic valve stenosis with LV hypertrophy.
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May support noninvasive FFR estimation in stenosis; extends coupled modeling but leaves open prospective validation.
A model describing the primary relations between the cardiac muscle and coronary circulation might be useful for interpreting coronary hemodynamics in case multiple types of coronary circulatory disease are present. The main contribution of the present study is the coupling of a microstructure-based heart contraction model with a 1D wave propagation model. The 1D representation of the vessels enables patient-specific modeling of the arteries and/or can serve as boundary conditions for detailed 3D models, while the heart model enables the simulation of cardiac disease, with physiology-based parameter changes. Here, the different components of the model are explained and the ability of the model to describe coronary hemodynamics in health and disease is evaluated. Two disease types are modeled: coronary epicardial stenoses and left ventricular hypertrophy with an aortic valve stenosis. In all simulations (healthy and diseased), the dynamics of pressure and flow qualitatively agreed with observations described in literature. We conclude that the model adequately can predict coronary hemodynamics in both normal and diseased state based on patient-specific clinical data.
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Horst et al. (2013) studied Coronary circulatory disease (coronary epicardial stenoses and left ventricular hypertrophy with aortic valve stenosis). Coupled microstructure-based single-fiber heart contraction and 1D wave propagation model vs. Experimental/clinical measurements from literature and linear elastic arterial wall model was evaluated on Simulated vs. measured fractional flow reserve (FFR) and coronary pressure/flow dynamics. Coupled heart contraction and 1D wave propagation modeling qualitatively reproduced clinical coronary hemodynamics, estimating FFR at 0.96 and 0.61 vs measured 0.93 and 0.57 for mild and severe stenoses.
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