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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