Yue-Hin Loke1, Francesco Capuano2,3, Elias Balaras4, Laura J Olivieri5,6. 1. Division of Cardiology, Children's National Hospital, 111 Michigan Ave NW W3-200, Washington, DC, 20010, USA. yloke@childrensnational.org. 2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", 80125, Naples, Italy. 3. Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Politecnico di Bari, 70126, Bari, Italy. 4. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA. 5. Division of Cardiology, Children's National Hospital, 111 Michigan Ave NW W3-200, Washington, DC, 20010, USA. 6. Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, Children's National Hospital, 111 Michigan Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20010, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: Patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) will develop dilation of the right ventricle (RV) from chronic pulmonary insufficiency and require pulmonary valve replacement (PVR). Cardiac MRI (cMRI) is used to guide therapy but has limitations in studying novel intracardiac flow parameters. This pilot study aimed to demonstrate feasibility of reconstructing RV motion and simulating intracardiac flow in rTOF patients, exclusively using conventional cMRI and an immersed-boundary method computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solver. METHODS: Four rTOF patients and three normal controls underwent cMRI including 4D flow. 3D RV models were segmented from cMRI images. Feature-tracking software captured RV endocardial contours from cMRI long-axis and short-axis cine stacks. RV motion was reconstructed via diffeomorphic mapping (Deformetrica, deformetrica.org), serving as the domain boundary for CFD. Fully-resolved direct numerical simulations were performed over several cardiac cycles. Intracardiac vorticity, kinetic energy (KE) and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) was measured. For validation, RV motion was compared to manual tracings, results of KE were compared between CFD and 4D flow. RESULTS: Diastolic vorticity and TKE in rTOF patients were 4.12 ± 2.42 mJ/L and 115 ± 27/s, compared to 2.96 ± 2.16 mJ/L and 78 ± 45/s in controls. There was good agreement between RV motion and manual tracings. The difference in diastolic KE between CFD and 4D flow by Bland-Altman analysis was - 0.89910 to 2 mJ/mL (95% limits of agreement: - 1.351 × 10-2 mJ/mL to 1.171 × 10-2 mJ/mL). CONCLUSION: This CFD framework can produce intracardiac flow in rTOF patients. CFD has the potential for predicting the effects of PVR in rTOF patients and improve the clinical indications guided by cMRI.
PURPOSE: Patients with repaired Tetralogy of Fallot (rTOF) will develop dilation of the right ventricle (RV) from chronic pulmonary insufficiency and require pulmonary valve replacement (PVR). Cardiac MRI (cMRI) is used to guide therapy but has limitations in studying novel intracardiac flow parameters. This pilot study aimed to demonstrate feasibility of reconstructing RV motion and simulating intracardiac flow in rTOF patients, exclusively using conventional cMRI and an immersed-boundary method computational fluid dynamic (CFD) solver. METHODS: Four rTOF patients and three normal controls underwent cMRI including 4D flow. 3D RV models were segmented from cMRI images. Feature-tracking software captured RV endocardial contours from cMRI long-axis and short-axis cine stacks. RV motion was reconstructed via diffeomorphic mapping (Deformetrica, deformetrica.org), serving as the domain boundary for CFD. Fully-resolved direct numerical simulations were performed over several cardiac cycles. Intracardiac vorticity, kinetic energy (KE) and turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) was measured. For validation, RV motion was compared to manual tracings, results of KE were compared between CFD and 4D flow. RESULTS: Diastolic vorticity and TKE in rTOF patients were 4.12 ± 2.42 mJ/L and 115 ± 27/s, compared to 2.96 ± 2.16 mJ/L and 78 ± 45/s in controls. There was good agreement between RV motion and manual tracings. The difference in diastolic KE between CFD and 4D flow by Bland-Altman analysis was - 0.89910 to 2 mJ/mL (95% limits of agreement: - 1.351 × 10-2 mJ/mL to 1.171 × 10-2 mJ/mL). CONCLUSION: This CFD framework can produce intracardiac flow in rTOF patients. CFD has the potential for predicting the effects of PVR in rTOF patients and improve the clinical indications guided by cMRI.
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