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    Comprehensive Assessment of Left Intraventricular Hemodynamics Using a Finite Element Method: An Application to Dilated Cardiomyopathy Patients
    (MDPI, 2021) Franco, Pamela; Sotelo, Julio; Montalba, Cristian; Ruijsink, Bram; Kerfoot, Eric; Nordsletten, David; Mura, Joaquín; Hurtado, Daniel; Uribe, Sergio
    In this paper, we applied a method for quantifying several left intraventricular hemodynamic parameters from 4D Flow data and its application in a proof-of-concept study in dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) patients. In total, 12 healthy volunteers and 13 DCM patients under treatment underwent short-axis cine b-SSFP and 4D Flow MRI. Following 3D segmentation of the left ventricular (LV) cavity and registration of both sequences, several hemodynamic parameters were calculated at peak systole, e-wave, and end-diastole using a finite element approach. Sensitivity, inter- and intra-observer reproducibility of hemodynamic parameters were evaluated by analyzing LV segmentation. A local analysis was performed by dividing the LV cavity into 16 regions. We found significant differences between volunteers and patients in velocity, vorticity, viscous dissipation, energy loss, and kinetic energy at peak systole and e-wave. Furthermore, although five patients showed a recovered ejection fraction after treatment, their hemodynamic parameters remained low. We obtained several hemodynamic parameters with high inter- and intra-observer reproducibility. The sensitivity study revealed that hemodynamic parameters showed a higher accuracy when the segmentation underestimates the LV volumes. Our approach was able to identify abnormal flow patterns in DCM patients compared to volunteers and can be applied to any other cardiovascular diseases.
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    Impact of aortic arch curvature in flow haemodynamics in patients with transposition of the great arteries after arterial switch operation
    (European Society Of Cardiology, 2022) Sotelo, Julio; Valverde, Israel; Martins, Duarte; Bonnet, Damien; Boddaert, Nathalie; Pushparajan, Kuberan; Uribe, Sergio; Raimondi, Francesca
    Aims. In this study, we will describe a comprehensive haemodynamic analysis and its relationship to the dilation of the aorta in transposition of the great artery (TGA) patients post-arterial switch operation (ASO) and controls using 4D-flow magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Methods and results. Using 4D-flow MRI data of 14 TGA young patients and 8 age-matched normal controls obtained with 1.5 T GE-MR scanner, we evaluate 3D maps of 15 different haemodynamics parameters in six regions; three of them in the aortic root and three of them in the ascending aorta (anterior-left, -right, and posterior for both cases) to find its relationship with the aortic arch curvature and root dilation. Differences between controls and patients were evaluated using Mann–Whitney U test, and the relationship with the curvature was accessed by unpaired t-test. For statistical significance, we consider a P-value of 0.05. The aortic arch curvature was significantly different between patients 46.238 ± 5.581 m−1 and controls 41.066 ± 5.323 m−1. Haemodynamic parameters as wall shear stress circumferential (WSS-C), and eccentricity (ECC), were significantly different between TGA patients and controls in both the root and ascending aorta regions. The distribution of forces along the ascending aorta is highly inhomogeneous in TGA patients. We found that the backward velocity (B-VEL), WSS-C, velocity angle (VEL-A), regurgitation fraction (RF), and ECC are highly correlated with the aortic arch curvature and root dilatation. Conclusion. We have identified six potential biomarkers (B-VEL, WSS-C, VEL-A, RF, and ECC), which may be helpful for follow-up evaluation and early prediction of aortic root dilatation in this patient population.
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    Three-dimensional quantification of circulation using finite-element methods in four-dimensional flow MR data of the thoracic aorta
    (Wiley, 2022) Sotelo, Julio; Bissell, Malenka M.; Jiang, Yaxin; Mella, Hernan; Mura, Joaquín; Uribe, Sergio
    Purpose. Three-dimensional (3D) quantification of circulation using a Finite Elements methodology. Methods. We validate our 3D method using an in-silico arch model, for different mesh resolutions, image resolution and noise levels, and we compared this with a currently used 2D method. Finally, we evaluated the application of our methodology in 4D Flow MRI data of ascending aorta of six healthy volunteers, and six bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) patients, three with right and three with left handed flow, at peak systole. The in-vivo data was compared using a Mann-Whitney U-test between volunteers and patients (right and left handed flow). Results.The robustness of our method throughout different image resolutions and noise levels showed subestimation of circulation less than 45 cm2/s in comparison with the 55cm2/s generated by the current 2D method. The circulation (mean ± SD) of the healthy volunteer group was 13.83 ± 28.78 cm2/s, in BAV patients with right-handed flow 724.37 ± 317.53 cm2/s, and BAV patients with left-handed flow −480.99 ± 387.29 cm2/s. There were significant differences between healthy volunteers and BAV patients groups (P-value < .01), and also between BAV patients with a right-handed or left-handed helical flow and healthy volunteers (P-value < .01). Conclusion. We propose a novel 3D formulation to estimate the circulation in the thoracic aorta, which can be used to assess the differences between normal and diseased hemodynamic from 4D-Flow MRI data. This method also can correctly differentiate between the visually seen right- and left-handed helical flow, which suggests that this approach may have high clinical sensitivity, but requires confirmation in longitudinal studies with a large cohort.