Engineering innovations in medicine and biology: Revolutionizing patient care through mechanical solutions

EG Hanna, K Younes, R Roufayel, M Khazaal… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
The overlap between mechanical engineering and medicine is expanding more and more
over the years. Engineers are now using their expertise to design and create functional …

Expanding landscape of coronary microvascular disease in co-morbid conditions: Metabolic disease and beyond

PE McCallinhart, AR Chade, SB Bender… - Journal of Molecular and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Coronary microvascular disease (CMD) and impaired coronary blood flow control are
defects that occur early in the pathogenesis of heart failure in cardiometabolic conditions …

Sex differences in coronary microvascular resistance measured by a computational fluid dynamics model

DJ Taylor, L Aubiniere-Robb, R Gosling… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Increased coronary microvascular resistance (CMVR) is associated with
coronary microvascular dysfunction (CMD). Although CMD is more common in women, sex …

[HTML][HTML] Personalised parameter estimation of the cardiovascular system: Leveraging data assimilation and sensitivity analysis

H Saxton, T Schenkel, I Halliday, X Xu - Journal of Computational Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Detailed models of dynamical systems used in the life sciences may include hundreds of
state variables and many input parameters, often with physical meanings. Therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of models of sequestration flow in coronary arteries—Physiology versus anatomy?

DJ Taylor, H Saxton, I Halliday, T Newman… - Computers in Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background: Myocardial ischaemia results from insufficient coronary blood flow. Computed
virtual fractional flow reserve (vFFR) allows quantification of proportional flow loss without …

Main Coronary Flow Calculation With the Assistance of Physiological Side Branch Flow

A Wang, H Zhang, B Xie, Z Gao, Y Dong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Objective: Fractional flow reserve (FFR) derived from coronary angiography, referred to as
ICA-FFR, is a less-invasive alternative for invasive FFR measurement based on …

Changes in Myocardial Blood Flow and Microvascular Resistance in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

E Yones, R Gosling, DJ Taylor, TAH Newman… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
BackgroundSevere aortic stenosis (AS) causes a pathophysiological cascade, which
impairs myocardial blood flow. This effect is exacerbated in the presence of coronary …

Derivation and Sensitivity Analysis of a Novel One-Dimensional Model of Coronary Blood Flow Accounting for Vessel Taper & Boundary Slip

H Saxton, DJ Taylor, X Xu, A Narracott… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Background: Ischaemic heart disease (IHD) results from insufficient coronary blood flow.
Computational models of coronary flow allow quantification of virtual fractional flow reserve …

The Impact of Experimental Designs & System Sloppiness on the Personalisation Process: A Cardiovascular Perspective

H Saxton, DJ Taylor, G Faulkner, I Halliday, T Newman… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
To employ a reduced-order cardiovascular model as a digital twin for personalised
medicine, it is essential to understand how uncertainties in the model's input parameters …