The Comparative Method Based on Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography for Assessing the Hemodynamic Significance of Coronary Artery Stenosis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

An important aspect in the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease is the functional evaluation of narrowed blood vessels. Medical image-based Computational Fluid Dynamic methods are currently increasingly being used in the clinical setting for flow studies of cardio vascular system. The aim of our study was to confirm the feasibility and functionality of a non-invasive computational method providing information about hemodynamic significance of coronary stenosis.

Methods

A comparative method was used to simulate the flow energy losses in real (stenotic) and reconstructed models without (reference) stenosis of the coronary arteries under stress test conditions, i.e. for maximum blood flow and minimal, constant vascular resistance. In addition to the absol

SUBMITTER: Malota Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10412489 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature