EBC - ON DEMAND
European Bifurcation Club 2015 – EBC 2015 – Athens, Greece
Novel insights from bench and simulation
Impact of side branches modeling on computation of endothelial shear stress in coronary artery disease
Author: Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico, MD, PhD, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, DE
DISCUSSION/CONLUSION
- Feasibility of QCA-OCT fusion
- Accurate real 3D cartesian reconstruction
- Feasibility of true anatomical tree models
- Accurate hydrodynamic / biomechanical calc
- Conventional single-conduit models
- Overestimate outflow
- Underestimate Pd/Pa
- Inaccurate SS
- Implications
- Former evidence (inconsistencies)
- Need to implement tree models in future studies
- Shear stress
- Coronary physiology