Abstract
This study investigates the hemodynamic changes to various types of coronary stenosis in the left coronary artery bifurcation, based on a patient-specific analysis. Twenty two patients with left coronary artery disease were included in this study. All stenoses involving the left coronary artery bifurcation were classified into four types, according to their locations: A) left circumflex (LCx) and left anterior descending (LAD), B) LCx only, C) left main stem only, and D) LAD only. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was performed to analyze the flow and wall shear stress (WSS) changes in all reconstructed left coronary geometries. Our results showed that the flow velocity and WSS were significantly increased at stenotic locations. High WSS was found at >70% lumen stenosis, which ranged from 2.5Pa to 3.5Pa. This study demonstrates that in patients with more than 50% stenosis in the left coronary artery bifurcation, WSS plays an important role in providing information about the extent of coronary atherosclerosis in the left coronary artery branch.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 447-452 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Physica Medica |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Early online date | 1 Mar 2013 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2013 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Atherosclerosis
- Coronary artery disease
- Hemodynamics
- Wall shear stress
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biophysics
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
- General Physics and Astronomy