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JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 114-122Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2017.04.020
Keywords
Valve thrombosis; Valve-in-Valve procedure; Transcatheter heart valve replacement; Blood stasis; Fluid-solid interaction modeling
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- Knoebel Institute for Healthy Aging [89546-142235]
- Professional Research Opportunity Funds [89610-142235]
- University of Denver Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
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Leaflet thrombosis following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and Valve-in-Valve (ViV) procedures has been increasingly recognized. This study aimed to investigate the effect of positioning of the transcatheter aortic valve (TAV) in ViV setting on the flow dynamics aspect of post-ViV thrombosis by quantifying the blood stasis in the intra-annular and supra-annular settings. To that end, two idealized computational models, representing ViV intra-annular and supra-annular positioning of a TAV were developed in a patient-specific geometry. Three-dimensional flow fields were then obtained via fluid solid interaction modeling to study the difference in blood residence time (BRT) on the TAV leaflets in the two settings. At the end of diastole, a strip of high BRT (>= 1.2s) region was observed on the TAV leaflets in the ViV intra-annular positioning at the fixed boundary where the leaflets are attached to the frame. Such a high BRT region was absent on the TAV leaflets in the supra-annular positioning. The maximum value of BRT on the surface of non-, right, and left coronary leaflets of the TAV in the supra-annular positioning were 53%, 11%, and 27% smaller compared to the intra-annular positioning, respectively. It was concluded that the geometric confinement of TAV by the leaflets of the failed bioprosthetic valve in ViV intra-annular positioning increases the BRT on the leaflets and may act as a permissive factor in valvular thrombosis. The absence of such a geometric confinement in the ViV supra-annular positioning leads to smaller BRT and subsequently less likelihood of leaflet thrombosis. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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