[PDF] Top 20 Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of the Effect of Plaques in the Left Coronary Artery

... Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in advanced ...of plaques on the artery wall, resulting in the lumen ...stenosis. Plaques have been particularly associated ... See full document

... of coronary artery disease which is formed by plaque presence inside the artery wall leading to blockage of the blood supply to the heart ...the artery wall during cardiac ...the ... See full document

... atherosclerosis, plaques grow circumferentially from the low WSS region into the high WSS flow divider, 34 thus severe ostial stenoses become circumferentially ...combined effect of plaque shifting from the ... See full document

... main coronary artery stenosis is associated with high mortality both in patients receiving treatment and those on drug ...the analysis. Cheemalapati et al conducted a survey on normal coronary ... See full document

... parent artery and therefore largely neglected the potential effects of parent artery ...parent artery upstream to an aneurysm could be significant on the intra-aneurysmal ...sensitivity ... See full document

... Local blood flow influences the process of plaque formation and stent patency in terms of restenosis. This relation emphasizes the importance to investigate local blood flow characteristics near stenotic lesions. ... See full document

... experimental coronary models were derived, the side branch on the infarct site usually gets thrombosed, and thus renders itself non- identifiable, or subtotally ... See full document

... Limitations for the present study should be pointed out as well. Firstly, the number of subjects in this study is very small, only including four patients and one normal control subject. Secondly, the CFD results are not ... See full document

... significant coronary stenosis or high-risk plaques ...different left coronary angulation has been performed to confirm the association between wide angulation and degree of coronary ... See full document

... the effect of the stent upon blood flow in a diseased artery at the strut level, where disturbed flow can be a causative factor in the development of in-stent thrombosis, restenosis, and ...local ... See full document

... femoral artery, which was treated to reduce the risk on stent ...CFD analysis shows tiny spots of medium-low WSS ...not effect bypass graft patency if left ... See full document

... the left main trunk, and the LCA ostium was located far from the aorta; therefore, aggressive mobilization of the left main trunk was not considered to be sufficient to enable direct implantation of the LCA ... See full document

... an artery and vein is depicted in Figure ...an artery, at high pressure and volume, venous compliance (slope of volume-pressure curve) becomes smaller than arterial ...host artery is regarded as a ... See full document

... of coronary artery anomalies (CAAs) is reported to be ...the coronary congenital anomalies and their variations using coronary CT ...suspected coronary anomalies by echocardiography or ... See full document

... patient’s coronary anatomy is important for giving direct cardioplegia and harvesting co- ronary buttons in the first ...of coronary button harvesting, which was managed ...these coronary arteries ... See full document

... investigating fluid dynamics is [19], motivate the development and validation of a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model to foster further development of the sloping wavy-bottom ... See full document

... percutaneous coronary intervention in coronary artery ...stenotic artery has inherited pitfalls, namely the presence of a foreign body within the artery causing vascular inflammation, ... See full document

... native artery, especially if the native artery is not too severely obstructed (for example, this remark does not apply for the Patient 1, whose LAD branch is almost totally ... See full document

... LCx artery can cause posterior, straight posterior, or posterolateral ...the left posterior axillary line, V8 at the tip of the left scapula, and V9 at the left of the spinal column in the ... See full document

... the coronary anatomy was without lesions in the left main coronary artery, the circumflex coronary artery or the right coronary artery (RCA) (Fig- ure 2 Panel A, ... See full document