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Nitinol Stent Oversizing in Patients Undergoing Popliteal Artery Revascularization: A Finite Element Study

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Gökgöl, Can; Diehm, Nicolas; Büchler, Philippe; Rikhtegar Nezami, Farhad
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Abstract
Nitinol stent oversizing is frequently performed in peripheral arteries to ensure a desirable lumen gain. However, the clinical effect of mis-sizing remains controversial. The goal of this study was to provide a better understanding of the structural and hemodynamic effects of Nitinol stent oversizing. Five patient-specific numerical models of non-calcified popliteal arteries were developed to simulate the deployment of Nitinol stents with oversizing ratios ranging from 1.1 to 1.8. In addition to arterial biomechanics, computational fluid dynamics methods were adopted to simulate the physiological blood flow inside the stented arteries. Results showed that stent oversizing led to a limited increase in the acute lumen gain, albeit at the cost of a significant increase in arterial wall stresses. Furthermore, localized areas affected by low Wall Shear Stress increased with higher oversizing ratios. Stents were also negatively impacted by the procedure as their fatigue safety factors gradually decreased with oversizing. These adverse effects to both the artery walls and stents may create circumstances for restenosis. Although the ideal oversizing ratio is stent-specific, this study showed that Nitinol stent oversizing has a very small impact on the immediate lumen gain, which contradicts the clinical motivations of the procedure.
Date issued
2015-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106573
Department
Institute for Medical Engineering and Science; Harvard University--MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
Journal
Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Publisher
Springer US
Citation
Gökgöl, Can et al. “Nitinol Stent Oversizing in Patients Undergoing Popliteal Artery Revascularization: A Finite Element Study.” Annals of Biomedical Engineering 43.12 (2015): 2868–2880.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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0090-6964
1573-9686

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