title: Oxygen Mass Transport in Stented Coronary Arteries.
abstract: Oxygen deficiency, known as hypoxia, in arterial walls has been linked to increased intimal hyperplasia, which is the main adverse biological process causing in-stent restenosis. Stent implantation has significant effects on the oxygen transport into the arterial wall. Elucidating these effects is critical to optimizing future stent designs. In this study the most advanced oxygen transport model developed to date was assessed in two test cases and used to compare three coronary stent designs. Additionally, the predicted results from four simplified blood oxygen transport models are compared in the two test cases. The advanced model showed good agreement with experimental measurements within the mass-transfer boundary layer and at the luminal surface; however, more work is needed in predicting the oxygen transport within the arterial wall. Simplifying the oxygen transport model within the blood flow produces significant errors in predicting the oxygen transport in arteries. This study can be used as a guide for all future numerical studies in this area and the advanced model could provide a powerful tool in aiding design of stents and other cardiovascular devices.
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton St, Dublin 1, Ireland. eoin.murphy@dit.ie.
authors.forename: Eoin A
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4001-053X
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.affiliation: CADFEM Ireland Ltd, 18 Windsor Place, Lower Pembroke St, Dublin 2, Ireland.
authors.forename: Adrian S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Dunne
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton St, Dublin 1, Ireland.
authors.forename: David M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Martin
authors.affiliation: School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, Dublin Institute of Technology, Bolton St, Dublin 1, Ireland.
authors.forename: Fergal J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Boyle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001693:Biological Transport, Active; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008955:Models, Cardiovascular; D010100:Oxygen; D015607:Stents
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen
keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Coronary artery disease; Hypoxia; In-stent restenosis; Stents