Blood Flow Energy Identifies Coronary Lesions Culprit of Future Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT: The present study establishes a link between blood flow energy transformations in coronary atherosclerotic lesions and clinical outcomes. The predictive capacity for future myocardial infarction (MI) was compared with that of established quantitative coronary angiography (QCA)-derived predictors. Angiography-based computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were performed on 80 human coronary lesions culprit of MI within 5 years and 108 non-culprit lesions for future MI. Blood flow energy transformations were assessed in the converging flow segment of the lesion as ratios of kinetic and rotational energy values (KER and RER, respectively) at the QCA-identified minimum lumen area and proximal lesion sections. The anatomical and functional lesion severity were evaluated with QCA to derive

SUBMITTER: Lodi Rizzini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11252236 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature