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Maladaptive aortic properties after the Norwood procedure: An angiographic analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial

by Sarah T. Plummer; Christoph P. Hornik; Hamilton Baker; Gregory A. Fleming; Susan Foerster; Matthew Ferguson; Andrew C. Glatz; Russel Hirsch; Jeffrey P. Jacobs; Kyong-Jin Lee; Alan B. Lewis; Jennifer S. Li; Mary Martin; Diego Porras; Wolfgang A. K. Radtke; John F. Rhodes; Julie A. Vincent; Jeffrey D. Zampi; Kevin D. Hill

2016

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Objectives: Aortic arch reconstruction in children with single ventricle lesions may predispose to circulatory inefficiency and maladaptive physiology leading to increased myocardial workload. We sought to describe neoaortic anatomy and physiology, risk factors for abnormalities, and impact on right ventricular function in patients with single right ventricle lesions after arch reconstruction. Methods: Prestage II aortic angiograms from the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction trial were analyzed to define arch geometry (Romanesque [normal], crenel [elongated] , or gothic [angular]), indexed neoaortic dimensions, and distensibility. Comparisons were made with 50 single-ventricle controls without prior arch reconstruction. Factors associated with ascending neoaortic dilation, reduced distensibility, and decreased ventricular function on the 14-month echocardiogram were evaluated using univariate and multivariable logistic regression. Results: Interpretable angiograms were available for 326 of 389 subjects (84%). Compared with controls, study subjects more often demonstrated abnormal arch geometry (67% vs 22%, P  <  .01) and had increased ascending neoaortic dilation (Z score 3.8 ± 2.2 vs 2.6 ± 2.0, P  <  .01) and reduced distensibility index (2.2 ± 1.9 vs 8.0 ± 3.8, P  <  .01). Adjusted odds of neoaortic dilation were increased in subjects with gothic arch geometry (odds ratio [OR], 3.2 vs crenel geometry, P  <  .01) and a right ventricle-pulmonary artery shunt (OR, 3.4 vs Blalock–Taussig shunt, P  <  .01) but were decreased in subjects with aortic atresia (OR, 0.7 vs stenosis, P  <  .01) and those with recoarctation (OR, 0.3 vs no recoarctation, P = .04). No demographic, anatomic, or surgical factors predicted reduced distensibility. Neither dilation nor distensibility predicted reduced right ventricular function. Conclusions: After Norwood surgery, the reconstructed neoaorta demonstrates abnormal anatomy and physiology. Further study is needed to evaluate the longer-term impact of these features.

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Fontan Surgical Planning: Previous Accomplishments, Current Challenges, and Future Directions

by Phillip M. Trusty; Timothy C. Slesnick; Zhenglun Alan Wei; Jarek Rossignac; Kirk R Kanter; Mark A. Fogel; Ajit Yoganathan

2018

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The ultimate goal of Fontan surgical planning is to provide additional insights into the clinical decision-making process. In its current state, surgical planning offers an accurate hemodynamic assessment of the pre-operative condition, provides anatomical constraints for potential surgical options, and produces decent post-operative predictions if boundary conditions are similar enough between the pre-operative and post-operative states. Moving forward, validation with post-operative data is a necessary step in order to assess the accuracy of surgical planning and determine which methodological improvements are needed. Future efforts to automate the surgical planning process will reduce the individual expertise needed and encourage use in the clinic by clinicians. As post-operative physiologic predictions improve, Fontan surgical planning will become an more effective tool to accurately model patient-specific hemodynamics.

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Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Current Considerations and Expectations

by Jeffrey A. Feinstein; D. Woodrow Benson; Anne M. Dubin; Meryl S. Cohen; Dawn M. Maxey; William Mahle; Elfriede Pahl; Juan Villafane; Ami B. Bhatt; Lynn F. Peng; Beth Ann Johnson; Alison L. Marsden; Curt J. Daniels; Nanacy A. Rudd; Christopher A. Caldarone; Kathleen A. Mussatto; David L. Morales; D. Dunbar Ivy; J. William Gaynor; James S. Tweddell; Barbara J. Deal; Anke K. Furck; Geoffrey L. Rosenthal; Richard G. Ohye; Nancy S. Ghanayem; John P. Cheatham; Wayne Tworetzky; Gerard R. Martin

2012

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In the recent era, no congenital heart defect has undergone a more dramatic change in diagnostic approach, management, and outcomes than hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). During this time, survival to the age of 5 years (including Fontan) has ranged from 50% to 69%, but current expectations are that 70% of newborns born today with HLHS may reach adulthood. Although the 3-stage treatment approach to HLHS is now well founded, there is significant variation among centers. In this white paper, we present the current state of the art in our understanding and treatment of HLHS during the stages of care: 1) pre-Stage I: fetal and neonatal assessment and management; 2) Stage I: perioperative care, interstage monitoring, and management strategies; 3) Stage II: surgeries; 4) Stage III: Fontan surgery; and 5) long-term follow-up. Issues surrounding the genetics of HLHS, developmental outcomes, and quality of life are addressed in addition to the many other considerations for caring for this group of complex patients.

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Can time-averaged flow boundary conditions be used to meet the clinical timeline for Fontan surgical planning?

by Zhenglun (Alan) Wei; Phillip M. Trusty; Mike Tree; Christopher M. Haggerty; Elaine Tang; Mark Fogel; Ajit Yoganathan

2017

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Cardiovascular simulations have great potential as a clinical tool for planning and evaluating patient-specific treatment strategies for those suffering from congenital heart diseases, specifically Fontan patients. However, several bottlenecks have delayed wider deployment of the simulations for clinical use; the main obstacle is simulation cost. Currently, time-averaged clinical flow measurements are utilized as numerical boundary conditions (BCs) in order to reduce the computational power and time needed to offer surgical planning within a clinical time frame. Nevertheless, pulsatile blood flow is observed in vivo, and its significant impact on numerical simulations has been demonstrated. Therefore, it is imperative to carry out a comprehensive study analyzing the sensitivity of using time-averaged BCs. In this study, sensitivity is evaluated based on the discrepancies between hemodynamic metrics calculated using time-averaged and pulsatile BCs; smaller discrepancies indicate less sensitivity. The current study incorporates a comparison between 3D patient-specific CFD simulations using both the time-averaged and pulsatile BCs for 101 Fontan patients. The sensitivity analysis involves two clinically important hemodynamic metrics: hepatic flow distribution (HFD) and indexed power loss (iPL). Paired demographic group comparisons revealed that HFD sensitivity is significantly different between single and bilateral superior vena cava cohorts but no other demographic discrepancies were observed for HFD or iPL. Multivariate regression analyses show that the best predictors for sensitivity involve flow pulsatilities, time-averaged flow rates, and geometric characteristics of the Fontan connection. These predictors provide patient-specific guidelines to determine the effectiveness of analyzing patient-specific surgical options with time-averaged BCs within a clinical time frame.

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Visualization of flow structures in Fontan patients using 3-dimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging

by Kartik S. Sundareswaran; Christopher M. Haggerty; Diane de Zelicourt; Lakshmi P. Dasi; Kerem Pekkan; David H. Frakes; Andrew J. Powell; Kirk R Kanter; Mark A. Fogel; Ajit Yoganathan

2012

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Objective: Our objective was to analyze 3-dimensional (3D) blood flow patterns within the total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) using in vivo phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC MRI). Methods: Sixteen single-ventricle patients were prospectively recruited at 2 leading pediatric institutions for PC MRI evaluation of their Fontan pathway. Patients were divided into 2 groups. Group 1 comprised 8 patients with an extracardiac (EC) TCPC, and group 2 comprised 8 patients with a lateral tunnel (LT) TCPC. A coronal stack of 5 to 10 contiguous PC MRI slices with 3D velocity encoding (5-9 ms resolution) was acquired and a volumetric flow field was reconstructed. Results: Analysis revealed large vortices in LT TCPCs and helical flow structures in EC TCPCs. On average, there was no difference between LT and EC TCPCs in the proportion of inferior vena cava flow going to the left pulmonary artery (43% ± 7% vs 46% ± 5%; P = .34). However, for EC TCPCs, the presence of a caval offset was a primary determinant of inferior vena caval flow distribution to the pulmonary arteries with a significant bias to the offset side. Conclusions: 3D flow structures within LT and EC TCPCs were reconstructed and analyzed for the first time using PC MRI. TCPC flow patterns were shown to be different, not only on the basis of LT or EC considerations, but with significant influence from the superior vena cava connection as well. This work adds to the ongoing body of research demonstrating the impact of TCPC geometry on the overall hemodynamic profile.

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Correction of Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation Using Image-Based Surgical Planning

by Kartik S. Sundareswaran; Diane de Zelicourt; Shiva Sharma; Kirk R Kanter; Thomas L. Spray; Jarek Rossignac; Fotis Sotiropoulos; Ajit Yoganathan; Mark A. Fogel

2009

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  • Engineering, Biomedical
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The objectives of this study were to develop an image-based surgical planning framework that 1) allows for in-depth analysis of pre-operative hemodynamics by the use of cardiac magnetic resonance and 2) enables surgeons to determine the optimum surgical scenarios before the operation. This framework is tailored for applications in which post-operative hemodynamics are important. In particular, it is exemplified here for a Fontan patient with severe left pulmonary arteriovenous malformations due to abnormal hepatic flow distribution to the lungs. Patients first undergo cardiac magnetic resonance for 3-dimensional anatomy and flow reconstruction. After analysis of the pre-operative flow fields, the 3-dimensional anatomy is imported into an interactive surgical planning interface for the surgeon to virtually perform multiple surgical scenarios. Associated hemodynamics are predicted by the use of a fully validated computational fluid dynamic solver. Finally, efficiency metrics (e.g., pressure decrease and hepatic flow distribution) are weighted against surgical feasibility to determine the optimal surgical option.

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Hemodynamic Energy Dissipation in the Cardiovascular System: Generalized Theoretical Analysis on Disease States

by Lakshmi P. Dasi; Kerem Pekkan; Diane de Zelicourt; Kartik S. Sundareswaran; Resmi Krishnankutty; Pedro J. Delnido; Ajit Yoganathan

2009

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  • Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
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Background: We present a fundamental theoretical framework for analysis of energy dissipation in any component of the circulatory system and formulate the full energy budget for both venous and arterial circulations. New indices allowing disease-specific subject-to-subject comparisons and disease-to-disease hemodynamic evaluation (quantifying the hemodynamic severity of one vascular disease type to the other) are presented based on this formalism. Methods and Results: Dimensional analysis of energy dissipation rate with respect to the human circulation shows that the rate of energy dissipation is inversely proportional to the square of the patient body surface area and directly proportional to the cube of cardiac output. This result verified the established formulae for energy loss in aortic stenosis that was solely derived through empirical clinical experience. Three new indices are introduced to evaluate more complex disease states: (1) circulation energy dissipation index (CEDI), (2) aortic valve energy dissipation index (AV-EDI), and (3) total cavopulmonary connection energy dissipation index (TCPC-EDI). CEDI is based on the full energy budget of the circulation and is the proper measure of the work performed by the ventricle relative to the net energy spent in overcoming frictional forces. It is shown to be 4.01 ± 0.16 for healthy individuals and above 7.0 for patients with severe aortic stenosis. Application of CEDI index on single-ventricle venous physiology reveals that the surgically created Fontan circulation, which is indeed palliative, progressively degrades in hemodynamic efficiency with growth (p < 0.001), with the net dissipation in a typical Fontan patient (Body surface area = 1.0 m2) being equivalent to that of an average case of severe aortic stenosis. AV-EDI is shown to be the proper index to gauge the hemodynamic severity of stenosed aortic valves as it accurately reflects energy loss. It is about 0.28 ± 0.12 for healthy human valves. Moderate aortic stenosis has an AV-EDI one order of magnitude higher while clinically severe aortic stenosis cases always had magnitudes above 3.0. TCPC-EDI represents the efficiency of the TCPC connection and is shown to be negatively correlated to the size of a typical "bottle-neck" region (pulmonary artery) in the surgical TCPC pathway (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Energy dissipation in the human circulation has been analyzed theoretically to derive the proper scaling (indexing) factor. CEDI, AV-EDI, and TCPC-EDI are proper measures of the dissipative characteristics of the circulatory system, aortic valve, and the Fontan connection, respectively.

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Imaging for Preintervention Planning Pre- and Post-Fontan Procedures

by Mark A. Fogel; Reza H. Khiabani; Ajit Yoganathan

2013

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  • Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery
  • Health Sciences, Radiology
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Effect of Flow Pulsatility on Modeling the Hemodynamics in the Total Cavopulmonary Connection

by Reza H. Khiabani; Maria Restrepo; Elaine Tang; Diane De Zelicourt; Fotis Sotiropoulos; Mark Fogel; Ajit Yoganathan

2012

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  • Engineering, Biomedical
  • Biophysics, General
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Total cavopulmonary connection is the result of a series of palliative surgical repairs performed on patients with single ventricle heart defects. The resulting anatomy has complex and unsteady hemodynamics characterized by flow mixing and flow separation. Although varying degrees of flow pulsatility have been observed in vivo, non-pulsatile (time-averaged) boundary conditions have traditionally been assumed in hemodynamic modeling, and only recently have pulsatile conditions been incorporated without completely characterizing their effect or importance. In this study, 3D numerical simulations with both pulsatile and non-pulsatile boundary conditions were performed for 24 patients with different anatomies and flow boundary conditions from Georgia Tech database. Flow structures, energy dissipation rates and pressure drops were compared under rest and simulated exercise conditions. It was found that flow pulsatility is the primary factor in determining the appropriate choice of boundary conditions, whereas the anatomic configuration and cardiac output had secondary effects. Results show that the hemodynamics can be strongly influenced by the presence of pulsatile flow. However, there was a minimum pulsatility threshold, identified by defining a weighted pulsatility index (wPI), above which the influence was significant. It was shown that when wPI < 30%, the relative error in hemodynamic predictions using time-averaged boundary conditions was less than 10% compared to pulsatile simulations. In addition, when wPI < 50, the relative error was less than 20%. A correlation was introduced to relate wPI to the relative error in predicting the flow metrics with non-pulsatile flow conditions.

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Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of an Intra-Atrial Fontan Connection

by Elaine Tang; Zhenglun (Alan) Wei; Mark A. Fogel; Alessandro Veneziani; Ajit Yoganathan

2020

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  • Biology, General
  • Engineering, Biomedical
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Total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) hemodynamics has been hypothesized to be associated with long-term complications in single ventricle heart defect patients. Rigid wall assumption has been commonly used when evaluating TCPC hemodynamics using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation. Previous study has evaluated impact of wall compliance on extra-cardiac TCPC hemodynamics using fluid-structure interaction (FSI) simulation. However, the impact of ignoring wall compliance on the presumably more compliant intra-atrial TCPC hemodynamics is not fully understood. To narrow this knowledge gap, this study aims to investigate impact of wall compliance on an intra-atrial TCPC hemodynamics. A patient-specific model of an intra-atrial TCPC is simulated with an FSI model. Patient-specific 3D TCPC anatomies were reconstructed from transverse cardiovascular magnetic resonance images. Patient-specific vessel flow rate from phase-contrast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at the Fontan pathway and the superior vena cava under resting condition were prescribed at the inlets. From the FSI simulation, the degree of wall deformation was compared with in vivo wall deformation from phase-contrast MRI data as validation of the FSI model. Then, TCPC flow structure, power loss and hepatic flow distribution (HFD) were compared between rigid wall and FSI simulation. There were differences in instantaneous pressure drop, power loss and HFD between rigid wall and FSI simulations, but no difference in the time-averaged quantities. The findings of this study support the use of a rigid wall assumption on evaluation of time-averaged intra-atrial TCPC hemodynamic metric under resting breath-held condition.
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