期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NUMERICAL METHODS FOR HEAT & FLUID FLOW
卷 32, 期 12, 页码 3881-3907出版社
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1108/HFF-03-2022-0145
关键词
Haemodynamics; Drug-eluting stents; Computational fluid dynamics; Drug delivery; Stent malapposition
资金
- Australian Postgraduate Award Scheme
The study aims to investigate the significance of drug transport from malapposed stent struts and whether a streamlined strut profile can mitigate adverse haemodynamics while enhancing drug uptake.
Purpose Stent malapposition is one of the most significant precursors of stent thrombosis and restenosis. Adverse haemodynamics may play a key role in establishing these diseases, although numerical studies have used idealised drug transport models to show that drug transport from malapposed drug-eluting stent struts can be significant. This paper aims to study whether drug transport from malapposed struts is truly significant. Another aim is to see whether a streamlined strut profile geometry - with a 61% smaller coating but a 32% greater coating-tissue contact area - can mitigate the adverse haemodynamics associated with stent malapposition while enhancing drug uptake. Design/methodology/approach Two- and three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics simulations were used in this study. Unlike past simulations of malapposed drug-eluting stent struts, a qualitatively validated drug-transport model which simulates the non-uniform depletion of drug within the drug coating was implemented. Findings It was shown that even a 10-mu m gap between the strut and tissue dramatically reduces drug uptake after 24 h of simulated drug transport. Furthermore, the streamlined strut profile was shown to minimise the adverse haemodynamics of malapposed and well-apposed stent struts alike and enhance drug uptake. Originality/value Unlike prior numerical studies of malapposed stent struts, which did not model the depletion of drug in the drug coating, it was found that stent malapposition yields negligible drug uptake. The proposed semicircular-profiled strut was also shown to be advantageous from a haemodynamic and drug transport perspective.
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