title: Conditions of microvessel occlusion for blood coagulation in flow.
abstract: Vessel occlusion is a perturbation of blood flow inside a blood vessel because of the fibrin clot formation. As a result, blood circulation in the vessel can be slowed down or even stopped. This can provoke the risk of cardiovascular events. In order to explore this phenomenon, we used a previously developed mathematical model of blood clotting to describe the concentrations of blood factors with a reaction-diffusion system of equations. The Navier-Stokes equations were used to model blood flow, and we treated the clot as a porous medium. We identify the conditions of partial or complete occlusion in a small vessel depending on various physical and physiological parameters. In particular, we were interested in the conditions on blood flow and diameter of the wounded area. The existence of a critical flow velocity separating the regimes of partial and complete occlusion was demonstrated through the mathematical investigation of a simplified model of thrombin wave propagation in Poiseuille flow. We observed different regimes of vessel occlusion depending on the model parameters both for the numerical simulations and in the theoretical study. Then, we compared the rate of clot growth in flow obtained in the simulations with experimental data. Both of them showed the existence of different regimes of clot growth depending on the velocity of blood flow.
authors.affiliation: Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France.|Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Lyon, 69376, France.|Laboratory of Study and Research in Applied Mathematics, Mohammadia School of Engineers, Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bouchnita
authors.affiliation: Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France.|Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie gory 1, Moscow, Russia.|Federal Research Clinical Center of Federal Medical & Biological Agency of Russia, Orekhovy boulevard 28, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Galochkina
authors.affiliation: Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France.|Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Lyon, 69376, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kurbatova
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, UMR 5558 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Lyon, 69376, France.|Service de Pharmacologie Clinique, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nony
authors.affiliation: Institut Camille Jordan, UMR 5208 CNRS, University Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, 69622, France.|INRIA Team Dracula, INRIA Lyon La Doua, 69603 Villeurbanne, France.|Laboratoire Poncelet, UMI 2615 CNRS, Bolshoy Vlasyevskiy Pereulok 11, 119002 Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Volpert
mesh_terms: D001777:Blood Coagulation; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity; D005337:Fibrin / Q000378:metabolism; D055806:Microvessels / Q000473:pathology*; D013917:Thrombin / Q000378:metabolism; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D005337:Fibrin; D013917:Thrombin
keywords: blood coagulation, Navier-Stokes equations, reaction-diffusion system, vascular occlusion