Personalized design and virtual evaluation of physician-modified stent grafts for juxta-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms

Soroosh Sanatkhani; Sanjeev G. Shroff; Prahlad G. Menon

doi:10.1117/12.2254404

24 February 2017 Personalized design and virtual evaluation of physician-modified stent grafts for juxta-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms

Soroosh Sanatkhani, Sanjeev G. Shroff, Prahlad G. Menon

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Proceedings Volume 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing; 101332C (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254404
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2017, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of juxtarenal aortic aneurysms (JAA) is particularly challenging owing to the requirement of suprarenal EVAR graft fixation, which has been associated with significant declines in long term renal function. Therefore, the ability to design fenestrated EVAR grafts on a personalized basis in order to ensure visceral and renal perfusion, is highly desirable. The objectives of this study are: a) To demonstrate novel 3D geometric methods to virtually design and deploy EVAR grafts into a virtually designed JAA, by applying a custom surface mesh deformation tool to a patient-specific descending aortic model reconstructed from computed tomographic (CT) images; and b) To virtually evaluate patient-specific renal flow and wall stresses in these patient-specific virtually EVAR geometries, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The presented framework may provide the modern cardiovascular surgeon the ability to leverage non-invasive, pre-operative imaging equipment to personalize and guide EVAR therapeutic strategy. Our CFD studies revealed that virtual EVAR grafting of a patient-specific JAA, with optimal fenestration sites and renal stenting, led to a 179.67±15.95% and 1051.43±18.34% improvement in right and left renal flow rates, respectively, when compared with the baseline patient-specific aortic geometry with renal stenoses, whereas a right and left renal flow improved by 36.44±2.24% and 885.93±12.41%, respectively, relative to the equivalently modeled JAA with renal stenoses, considering averages across the three simulated inflow rate cases. The proposed framework have utility to iteratively optimize suprarenal EVAR fixation length and achieve normal renal wall shear stresses and streamlined juxtarenal hemodynamics.

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Soroosh Sanatkhani, Sanjeev G. Shroff, and Prahlad G. Menon "Personalized design and virtual evaluation of physician-modified stent grafts for juxta-renal abdominal aortic aneurysms", Proc. SPIE 10133, Medical Imaging 2017: Image Processing, 101332C (24 February 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254404

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Arteries

Hemodynamics

Computational fluid dynamics

Computed tomography

Surgery

3D modeling

Blood circulation

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