Numerical simulation of left ventricular assist device implantations: Comparing the ascending and the descending aorta cannulations

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1465-1475

  Bonnemain, Jean ^a,b   Malossi, A Cristiano I ^a   Lesinigo, Matteo ^a   Deparis, Simone ^a   Quarteroni, Alfio ^a,c   von Segesser, Ludwig K ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Blood flow models; Geometrical multiscale modeling; Hemodynamics; Left ventricular assist device; Wave propagation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW MODELS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CIRCULATORY SYSTEMS; LUMPED-PARAMETERS MODELS; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; PRESSURE WAVEFORMS; SPECIFIC LOCATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; FLOW RATE; HEMODYNAMICS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SPEED; SURGERY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANNULA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA SURGERY; HEART FAILURE; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BLOOD FLOW MODELS; GEOMETRICAL MULTISCALE MODELING; HEMODYNAMICS; LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD CIRCULATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS;

EID: 84883170013     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2013.03.022     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Thunberg C.A., Gaitan B.D., Arabia F.A., Cole D.J., Grigore A.M. Ventricular assist devices today and tomorrow. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2010, 24:656-680.
2. Roger V.L., Go A.S., Lloyd-Jones D.M., Adams R.J., Berry J.D., Brown T.M., et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics - 2011 update: a report from the American Heart Association. Circulation 2011, 123:e18-e209.
3. Miller L.W., Pagani F.D., Russell S.D., John R., Boyle A.J., Aaronson K.D., et al. Use of a continuous-flow device in patients awaiting heart transplantation. N Engl J Med 2007, 357:885-896.
4. Birks E.J., Tansley P.D., Hardy J., George R.S., Bowles C.T., Burke M., et al. Left ventricular assist device and drug therapy for the reversal of heart failure. N Engl J Med 2006, 355:1873-1884.
5. Rose E.A., Gelijns A.C., Moskowitz A.J., Heitjan D.F., Stevenson L.W., Dembitsky W., et al. Long-term mechanical left ventricular assistance for end-stage heart failure. N Engl J Med 2001, 345:1435-1443.
6. Ziemba E.A., John R. Mechanical circulatory support for bridge to decision: which device and when to decide. J Card Surg 2010, 25:425-433.
7. Westaby S., Frazier O.H., Pigott D.W., Saito S., Jarvik R.K. Implant technique for the Jarvik 2000 heart. Ann Thorac Surg 2002, 73:1337-1340.
8. Frazier O.H., Gregoric I.D., Cohn W.E. Initial experience with non-thoracic, extraperitoneal, off-pump insertion of the Jarvik 2000 heart in patients with previous median sternotomy. J Heart Lung Transpl 2006, 25:499-503.
9. Litwak K.N., Koenig S.C., Tsukui H., Kihara S.I., Wu Z., Pantalos G.M. Effects of left ventricular assist device support and outflow graft location upon aortic blood flow. ASAIO J 2004, 50:432-437.
10. Litwak K.N., Koenig S.C., Cheng R.C., Giridharan G.A., Gillars K.J., Pantalos G.M. Ascending aorta outflow graft location and pulsatile ventricular assist provide optimal hemodynamic support in an adult mock circulation. Artif Organs 2005, 29:629-635.
11. DiGiorgi P.L., Smith D.L., Naka Y., Oz M.C. In vitro characterization of aortic retrograde and antegrade flow from pulsatile and non-pulsatile ventricular assist devices. J Heart Lung Transpl 2004, 23:186-192.
12. Nawata K., Nishimura T., Kyo S., Hisagi M., Kinoshita O., Saito A., et al. Outcomes of midterm circulatory support by left ventricular assist device implantation with descending aortic anastomosis. J Artif Organs 2010, 13:197-201.
13. Bazilevs Y., Gohean J.R., Hughes T.J.R., Moser R.D., Zhang Y. Patient-specific isogeometric fluid-structure interaction analysis of thoracic aortic blood flow due to implantation of the Jarvik 2000 left ventricular assist device. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2009, 198:3534-3550.
14. Frazier O.H., Myers T.J., Gregoric I.D., Khan T., Delgado R., Croitoru M., et al. Initial clinical experience with the Jarvik 2000 implantable axial-flow left ventricular assist system. Circulation 2002, 105:2855-2860.
15. Tuzun E., Narin C., Gregoric I.D., Cohn W.E., Frazier O.H. Ventricular assist device outflow-graft site: effect on myocardial blood flow. J Surg Res 2011, 171:71-75.
16. Ghodsizad A., Kar B.J., Layolka P., Okur A., Gonzales J., Bara C., et al. Less invasive off-pump implantation of axial flow pumps in chronic ischemic heart failure: survival effects. J Heart Lung Transpl 2011, 30:834-837.
17. May-Newman K., Hillen B., Dembitsky W. Effect of left ventricular assist device outflow conduit anastomosis location on flow patterns in the native aorta. ASAIO J 2006, 52:132-139.
18. Yang N., Deutsch S., Paterson E.G., Manning K.B. Numerical study of blood flow at the end-to-side anastomosis of a left ventricular assist device for adult patients. J Biomech Eng 2009, 131:111005.
19. Yang N., Deutsch S., Paterson E.G., Manning K.B. Hemodynamics of an end-to-side anastomotic graft for a pulsatile pediatric ventricular assist device. J Biomech Eng 2010, 132:031009.
20. Kar B., Delgado R.M., Frazier O.H., Gregoric I.D., Harting M.T., Wadia Y., et al. The effect of LVAD aortic outflow-graft placement on hemodynamics and flow: implantation technique and computer flow modeling. Tex Heart Inst J 2005, 32:294-298.
21. Noor M.R., Bowles C., Banner N.R. Relationship between pump speed and exercise capacity during HeartMate II left ventricular assist device support: influence of residual left ventricular function. Eur J Heart Fail 2012, 14:613-620.
22. Brassard P., Jensen A.S., Nordsborg N., Gustafsson F., Møller J.E., Hassager C., et al. Central and peripheral blood flow during exercise with a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device. Circ Heart Fail 2011, 4:554-560.
23. Malossi A.C.I., Blanco P.J., Deparis S., Quarteroni A. Algorithms for the partitioned solution of weakly coupled fluid models for cardiovascular flows. Int J Num Methods Biomed Eng 2011, 27:2035-2057.
24. Malossi A.C.I., Blanco P.J., Deparis S. A two-level time step technique for the partitioned solution of one-dimensional arterial networks. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2012, 237-240:212-226.
25. Reymond P., Merenda F., Perren F., Rüfenacht D., Stergiopulos N. Validation of a one-dimensional model of the systemic arterial tree. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2009, 297:H208-H222.
26. Ursino M. Interaction between carotid baroregulation and the pulsating heart: a mathematical model. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 1998, 275:H1733-H1747.
27. Avolio A.P. Multi-branched model of the human arterial system. Med Biol Eng Comput 1980, 18:709-718.
28. Stergiopulos N., Young D.F., Rogge T.R. Computer simulation of arterial flow with applications to arterial and aortic stenoses. J Biomech 1992, 25:1477-1488.
29. Olufsen MS. Modeling the arterial system with reference to an anesthesia simulator. PhD thesis, Roskilde University; 1998.
30. Formaggia L., Lamponi D., Quarteroni A. One-dimensional models for blood flow in arteries. J Eng Math 2003, 47:251-276.
31. Liang F., Liu H. A closed-loop lumped parameter computational model for human cardiovascular system. JSME Int J 2005, 48:484-493.
32. Alastruey J., Parker K.H., Peiró J., Byrd S.M., Sherwin S.J. Modelling the circle of Willis to assess the effects of anatomical variations and occlusions on cerebral flows. J Biomech 2007, 40:1794-1805.
33. Blanco P.J., Leiva J.S., Feijóo R.A., Buscaglia G.C. Black-box decomposition approach for computational hemodynamics: one-dimensional models. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2011, 200:1389-1405.
34. Stergiopulos N., Westerhof B., Westerhof N. Total arterial inertance as the fourth element of the windkessel model. Am J Physiol 1999, 276:H81-H88.
35. Segers P., Stergiopulos N., Westerhof N., Wouters P., Kolh P., Verdonck P. Systemic and pulmonary hemodynamics assessed with a lumped-parameter heart-arterial interaction model. J Eng Math 2003, 47:185-199.
36. Milišić V., Quarteroni A. Analysis of lumped parameter models for blood flow simulations and their relation with 1D models. ESAIM: Math Model Numer Anal 2004, 38:613-632.
37. Ottesen J.T., Olufsen M.S., Larsen J.K. Applied mathematical models in human physiology. Volume MM09 of monographs on mathematical modeling and computation, SIAM 2004.
38. Lanzarone E., Liani P., Baselli G., Constantino M.L. Model of arterial tree and peripheral control for the study of physiological and assisted circulation. Med Eng Phys 2007, 29:542-555.
39. Shi Y., Lawford P., Hose R. Review of Zero-D and 1-D models of blood flow in the cardiovascular system. Biomed Eng Online 2011, 10:1-38.
40. Formaggia L., Quarteroni A., Veneziani A. Cardiovascular mathematics. Volume 1 of Modeling, simulation & applications 2009, Springer-Verlag, Milan.
41. Cox L.G.E., Loerakker S., Rutten M.C.M., de Mol B.A.J.M., van de Vosse F.N. A mathematical model to evaluate control strategies for mechanical circulatory support. Artif Organs 2009, 33:593-603.
42. Westerhof N., Stergiopulos N., Noble M.I.M. Snapshots of hemodynamics: an aid for clinical research and graduate education. Basic science for the cardiologist 2010, Springer-Verlag, New York. 2nd ed.
43. Koenig S.C., Pantalos G.M., Gillars K.J., Ewert D.L., Litwak K.N., Etoch S.W. Hemodynamic and pressure-volume responses to continuous and pulsatile ventricular assist in an adult mock circulation. ASAIO J 2004, 50:15-24.
44. Khalil H.A., Cohn W.E., Metcalfe R.W., Frazier O.H. Preload sensitivity of the Jarvik 2000 and HeartMate II left ventricular assist devices. ASAIO J 2008, 54:245-248.
45. Bonnemain J., Deparis S., Quarteroni A. Connecting ventricular assist devices to the aorta: a numerical model. Imagine math. between culture and mathematics 2012, 211-224. Springer-Verlag, Milan.