Journal
CIRCULATION-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.116.005207
Keywords
Bernoulli principle; biomarker; blood pressure; hemodynamics; stenosis; valve
Funding
- Wellcome Trust
- Royal Society [099973/Z/12/Z, WT088641]
- EPSRC [EP/N011554/1]
- British Heart Foundation Centres of Research Excelence (KCL and Oxford)
- UK NIHR (Guy's and St Thomas' & Oxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centres, Healthcare Technology Co-operative for Cardiovascular Disease)
- EPSRC [EP/N011554/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- British Heart Foundation [FS/10/43/28415] Funding Source: researchfish
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N011554/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Background Transvalvular peak pressure drops are routinely assessed noninvasively by echocardiography using the Bernoulli principle. However, the Bernoulli principle relies on several approximations that may not be appropriate, including that the majority of the pressure drop is because of the spatial acceleration of the blood flow, and the ejection jet is a single streamline (single peak velocity value). Methods and Results We assessed the accuracy of the Bernoulli principle to estimate the peak pressure drop at the aortic valve using 3-dimensional cardiovascular magnetic resonance flow data in 32 subjects. Reference pressure drops were computed from the flow field, accounting for the principles of physics (ie, the Navier-Stokes equations). Analysis of the pressure components confirmed that the spatial acceleration of the blood jet through the valve is most significant (accounting for 99% of the total drop in stenotic subjects). However, the Bernoulli formulation demonstrated a consistent overestimation of the transvalvular pressure (average of 54%, range 5%-136%) resulting from the use of a single peak velocity value, which neglects the velocity distribution across the aortic valve plane. This assumption was a source of uncontrolled variability. Conclusions The application of the Bernoulli formulation results in a clinically significant overestimation of peak pressure drops because of approximation of blood flow as a single streamline. A corrected formulation that accounts for the cross-sectional profile of the blood flow is proposed and adapted to both cardiovascular magnetic resonance and echocardiographic data.
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