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@article{Wong:2023:10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x,
author = {Wong, HS and Li, B and Tulzer, A and Tulzer, G and Yap, CH},
doi = {10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x},
journal = {Annals of Biomedical Engineering},
pages = {1485--1498},
title = {Fluid mechanical effects of fetal aortic valvuloplasty for cases of critical aortic stenosis with evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x},
volume = {51},
year = {2023}
}
TY - JOUR
AB - Fetuses with critical aortic stenosis (FAS) are at high risk of progression to HLHS by the time of birth (and are thus termed “evolving HLHS”). An in-utero catheter-based intervention, fetal aortic valvuloplasty (FAV), has shown promise as an intervention strategy to circumvent the progression, but its impact on the heart’s biomechanics is not well understood. We performed patient-specific computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations based on 4D fetal echocardiography to assess the changes in the fluid mechanical environment in the FAS left ventricle (LV) directly before and 2 days after FAV. Echocardiograms of five FAS cases with technically successful FAV were retrospectively analysed. FAS compromised LV stroke volume and ejection fraction, but FAV rescued it significantly. Calculations to match simulations to clinical measurements showed that FAV approximately doubled aortic valve orifice area, but it remained much smaller than in healthy hearts. Diseased LVs had mildly stenotic mitral valves, which generated fast and narrow diastolic mitral inflow jet and vortex rings that remained unresolved directly after FAV. FAV further caused aortic valve damage and high-velocity regurgitation. The high-velocity aortic regurgitation jet and vortex ring caused a chaotic flow field upon impinging the apex, which drastically exacerbated the already high energy losses and poor flow energy efficiency of FAS LVs. Two days after the procedure, FAV did not alter wall shear stress (WSS) spatial patterns of diseased LV but elevated WSS magnitudes, and the poor blood turnover in pre-FAV LVs did not significantly improve directly after FAV. FAV improved FAS LV’s flow function, but it also led to highly chaotic flow patterns and excessively high energy losses due to the introduction of aortic regurgitation directly after the intervention. Further studies analysing the effects several weeks after FAV are needed to understand the effects of such biomechanics on mo
AU - Wong,HS
AU - Li,B
AU - Tulzer,A
AU - Tulzer,G
AU - Yap,CH
DO - 10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x
EP - 1498
PY - 2023///
SN - 0090-6964
SP - 1485
TI - Fluid mechanical effects of fetal aortic valvuloplasty for cases of critical aortic stenosis with evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome
T2 - Annals of Biomedical Engineering
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10439-023-03152-x
VL - 51
ER -
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