Journal
BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 11, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11040520
Keywords
hemodynamics; aneurysm growth; computational fluid dynamics; oscillatory shear index; wall shear stress; kinetic energy
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Funding
- Czech Health Research Council (AZV CR) [17-32872A, NV19-04-00270]
- National Program of Sustainability II (MEYS CR) [LQ1605]
- project FNUSA-ICRC [CZ.1.05/1.1.00/02.0123]
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Computational fluid dynamics has been used to study hemodynamic properties related to cerebral aneurysm rupture. This retrospective study analyzed hemodynamic and morphological changes in four patient-specific aneurysms, finding that growth is associated with low wall shear stress and high velocity gradients. A new finding was that an increase in kinetic energy seemed correlated to the change in aneurysm volume.
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has grown as a tool to help understand the hemodynamic properties related to the rupture of cerebral aneurysms. Few of these studies deal specifically with aneurysm growth and most only use a single time instance within the aneurysm growth history. The present retrospective study investigated four patient-specific aneurysms, once at initial diagnosis and then at follow-up, to analyze hemodynamic and morphological changes. Aneurysm geometries were segmented via the medical image processing software Mimics. The geometries were meshed and a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was performed using ANSYS. Results showed that major geometry bulk growth occurred in areas of low wall shear stress (WSS). Wall shape remodeling near neck impingement regions occurred in areas with large gradients of WSS and oscillatory shear index. This study found that growth occurred in areas where low WSS was accompanied by high velocity gradients between the aneurysm wall and large swirling flow structures. A new finding was that all cases showed an increase in kinetic energy from the first time point to the second, and this change in kinetic energy seems correlated to the change in aneurysm volume.
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