Journal
ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Volume 49, Issue 9, Pages 2349-2364Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-021-02776-1
Keywords
In-stent restenosis; Vascular remodeling; Peripheral artery disease; Stent overlapping; Longitudinal study; Patient-specific computer modeling; Computational fluid dynamics; Wall shear stress
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Funding
- Fondazione Cariplo, Italy [2017-0792]
- Politecnico di Torino within the CRUI-CARE Agreement
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This study aimed to analyze the lumen remodeling trajectory and investigate the impact of altered hemodynamics on ISR onset and progression in stented superficial femoral arteries. The research found that the largest lumen remodeling occurred in the first post-operative month, with slight differences in lumen area change between long and short stents and segments upstream and downstream from stent overlapping portions. Abnormal patterns of multidirectional wall shear stress were associated with lumen remodeling within 1-year post-intervention.
In-stent restenosis (ISR) represents a major drawback of stented superficial femoral arteries (SFAs). Motivated by the high incidence and limited knowledge of ISR onset and development in human SFAs, this study aims to (i) analyze the lumen remodeling trajectory over 1-year follow-up period in human stented SFAs and (ii) investigate the impact of altered hemodynamics on ISR initiation and progression. Ten SFA lesions were reconstructed at four follow-ups from computed tomography to quantify the lumen area change occurring within 1-year post-intervention. Patient-specific computational fluid dynamics simulations were performed at each follow-up to relate wall shear stress (WSS) based descriptors with lumen remodeling. The largest lumen remodeling was found in the first post-operative month, with slight regional-specific differences (larger inward remodeling in the fringe segments, p < 0.05). Focal re-narrowing frequently occurred after 6 months. Slight differences in the lumen area change emerged between long and short stents, and between segments upstream and downstream from stent overlapping portions, at specific time intervals. Abnormal patterns of multidirectional WSS were associated with lumen remodeling within 1-year post-intervention. This longitudinal study gave important insights into the dynamics of ISR and the impact of hemodynamics on ISR progression in human SFAs.
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