期刊
ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
卷 37, 期 8, 页码 1483-1494出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9719-9
关键词
Streamlined stent; Stent strut design; Hemodynamics; Shear; Endothelium; Coagulation
资金
- National Institutes of Health [HL62250, HL096059]
- Training [T32 HL07954]
Stents are deployed to physically reopen stenotic regions of arteries and to restore blood flow. However, inflammation and localized stent thrombosis remain a risk for all current commercial stent designs. Computational fluid dynamics results predict that nonstreamlined stent struts deployed at the arterial surface in contact with flowing blood, regardless of the strut height, promote the creation of proximal and distal flow conditions that are characterized by flow recirculation, low flow (shear) rates, and prolonged particle residence time. Furthermore, low shear rates yield an environment less conducive for endothelialization, while local flow recirculation zones can serve as micro-reaction chambers where procoagulant and pro-inflammatory elements from the blood and vessel wall accumulate. By merging aerodynamic theory with local hemodynamic conditions we propose a streamlined stent strut design that promotes the development of a local flow field free of recirculation zones, which is predicted to inhibit thrombosis and is more conducive for endothelialization.
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