Sanjiv Gunasekera, Olivia Ng, Shannon Thomas, Ramon Varcoe, Charitha de Silva & Tracie Barber - Experiments in Fluids, 2020
The arteriovenous fistula (AVF), which is a vasculature created for end-stage renal disease patients who require haemodialysis, is susceptible to many vascular diseases. ...The current study is an investigation of the complex three-dimensional flow within a physiological AVF geometry, using tomographic particle image velocimetry... … The ViVitro Superpump (ViVitro Labs Inc., BC, Canada) was used as the flow source and a network of rigid Tygon tubing inclusive of valves, to simulate vascular resistance, and air-filled syringes, to simulate vascular compliance, connected the model to the pump …
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Visit SourceJanarthanan Sathananthan MBChB, MPH Mark Hensey MB BCh BAO Rob Fraser MSc Uri Landes MD Philipp Blanke MD Hoda Hatoum PhD Lakshmi Prasad Dasi PhD Alexander Sedaghat MD Vinayak N Bapat MD Jonathon Leipsic MD Lars Søndergaard MD, DMSc David A. Wood MD John G. Webb MD - October 2019 - VALVULAR AND STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASES
The commonly used valve‐in‐valve (VIV) app recommends sizing based on dimensions of both the transcatheter heart valve (THV) and bioprosthetic surgical valve.... ...This bench study assessed the hydrodynamic performance of different sizes of self‐expanding supra‐annular THVs in three different surgical aortic bioprostheses at different implantation depths.... ...Testing was performed at the Centre for Heart Valve Innovation bench testing laboratory, and ViVitro Laboratories....
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Visit SourceJana Fuchsberger Philipp Aigner Gundolf Haase Steven Niederer Heinrich Schima Gernot Plank Elias Karabela - September 2020 preprint rxiv.org
Simulating the interaction of fluids with immersed moving solids is playing an important role for gaining a better quantitative understanding of how fluid dynamics is altered by the presence of obstacles and, vice versa, which forces are exerted on the solids by the moving fluid... ...application problems with focus on understanding the effect of solids on altering fluid dynamics. In this study we report on the development of a novel method for such applications. In our method rigid moving obstacles are incorporated in a fluid dynamics context using concepts from porous media theory. Based on the Navier-Stokes-Brinkman equations... ...and a piston pump (SuperPump, ViVitro Labs Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) were used to generate stationary and pulsating inflows....
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Visit SourceYuanjia Zhu, Annabel M. Imbrie-Moore, Michael J. Paulsen, Bryant Priromprintr, Matthew H. Park, Hanjay Wang, Haley J. Lucian, Justin M. Farry & Y. Joseph Woo - Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research (2020)
To simulate Aortic Regurgitation (AR), four porcine aortic valves were explanted, and the commissure between the two largest leaflets was detached and re-implanted 5 mm lower to induce cusp prolapse. … 1c), which has been previously described in detail [17, 18]. In brief, the simulator encompasses a programmable pulsatile linear piston pump (ViVitro Superpump, ViVitro Labs, Victoria, BC, Canada) that is attached to a custom left ventricular chamber …
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Visit SourceSean Guo‐Dong Tan, Jimmy Kim Fatt Hon, Yen Ngoc Nguyen, Sangho Kim, Hwa Liang Leo - Artificial Organs 22 July 2020
This study aims to investigate the effect of orifice shape and its position with respect to the posterior wall of the ventricle on vortical formation and turbulence intensity in the LV, by utilizing four separate orifice configurations within an in vitro left heart simulator. … in a native healthy heart as described in a prior study by GDS Tan et al.[25] was utilized in this study. A pulsatile pump (ViVitro Labs Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) was employed to propel the blood analog with properties that are described in table 2 through the loop …
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Visit SourceBhullar, Arpin Singh - UBC Theses and Dissertations 2020
...research topic of designing a radical mechanical heart valve prosthesis that leveraged novel design elements to mitigate anticoagulant therapy and improve patient quality of life... ....problems have plagued the most common form of MHVs, bileaflet mechanical heart valves (BMHVs), for decades as their designs have stagnated.... ... This research was conducted to design and validate a BMHV that would have similar hemodynamic properties to native heart valves, enabling implantation without reliance on post-operative anti-coagulants.... ... modern, digital ViVitro SuperPump and its power and control system which combined, produce the user-selected waveform for testing...
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Visit SourceAnnabel M. Imbrie-Moore, Cole C. Paullin, Michael J. Paulsen, Frederick Grady, Hanjay Wang, Camille E. Hironaka, Justin M. Farry, Haley J. Lucian. Y. Joseph Woo - Medical Engineering & Physics Available online 31 January 2020
...This work shows the design and implementation of a 3D-printed valve dilation device to preferentially dilate the posterior mitral valve annulus... ...In brief, a custom 3D-printed left heart chamber (Fig. 2A) was mounted to a pulsatile linear piston pump (ViVitro Superpump, ViVitro Labs, Victoria, BC, Canada) with the ability to generate physiologic conditions … ...this annular dilation device provides the means to investigate the design and optimization of novel annuloplasty rings....
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Visit SourceJason Voorneveld, Hicham Saaid, Christiaan Schinkel, Nikola Radeljic, Boris Lippe, Frank J.H. Gijsen, Antonius F.W.van der Steen, Nico de Jong, Tom Claessens, Hendrik J. Vos, Sasa Kenjeres, Johan G. Bosch - Elsevier Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology - Available online 8 January 2020
Left ventricular (LV) blood flow is an inherently complex time-varying 3-D phenomenon, where 2-D quantification often ignores the effect of out-of-plane motion. In this study, we describe high frame rate 4-D echocardiographic particle image velocimetry (echo-PIV) using a prototype matrix transesophageal transducer and a dynamic LV phantom for testing the accuracy of echo-PIV in the presence of complex flow patterns.... … 1a). The mitral and aortic tracts of the LV were connected to atrial and compliance chambers (transparent acrylic, built in-house), which were connected via a tube with an adjustable resistance valve (ViVitro Labs … ... We demonstrate that 4-D echo-PIV could be performed in just four heart cycles, which would require only a short breath-hold, providing promising results. However, methods for resolving high velocity gradients in regions of poor spatial resolution are required before clinical translation....
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Visit SourceJae H. Lee, Alex D. Rygg, Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz, Simone Rossi, Stephen M. Retta, Nandini Duraiswamy, Lawrence N. Scotten, Brent A. Craven, and Boyce E. Grith -
Computer modeling and simulation (CM&S) is a powerful tool for assessing the performance of medical devices such as bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) and promises to accelerate device design and regulation. This study describes work to develop dynamic computer models of BHVs in the aortic test section of an experimental pulse duplicator platform that is used in academia, industry, and regulatory agencies to assess BHV performance... ...This work represents a step towards the experimental validation of this FSI modeling platform for evaluating BHVs.... … In vitro experiments are performed using two different experimental platforms, including a ViVitro Pulse Duplicator (ViVitro Labs, Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) available through the FDA Cardiac Device Flow Lab and a customized …
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Visit SourceFeng Guo (郭峰)Chang Liu (刘唱)Rizheng Han (韩日峥)Qiang Lu (吕强)Yun Bai (白芸)Rui Yang (杨锐)Dun Niu (牛盾)Email authorXing Zhang (张兴) -Science China Materials
Herein, two types of silk fibroin (SF) fiber membranes with anisotropic (ASF) and isotropic (ISF) properties were prepared by electrospinning, and were further combined with poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogels to serve as polymeric heart valve (PHV) substitutes (PEGDA-ASF and PEGDA-ISF)... ...The PHVs from both PEGDA-ASF and PEGDA-ISF presented appropriate hydrodynamic properties from pulse duplicator tests according to the ISO 5840-3 standard.... ...The Gauss curvature analysis also indicated that the anisotropic PEGDA-ASF valve can produce appropriate surface morphology by dynamically adjusting the movement of bending area during the opening process... … 1c, d). Pulse duplicator tests In vitro hemodynamic properties of PHVs were tested in a 0.9% saline solution using a pulse duplicator system (Vivitro Labs, Inc., British Columbia, Canada) according to the ISO 5840-3 standard [21] …
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Visit SourceMiss Brittany A. Gonzalez, Miss Elnaz Pour Issa, Mr. Omkar V. Mankame, Miss Jenniffer Bustillos, Mr. Antonio Cuellar, Mr. Andres J. Rodriguez, Dr. Frank Scholl, Dr. Steven Bibevski, Dr. Lazaro Hernandez, Mr. Vincent Brehier, Mr. Mike Casares, Dr. Krishna Rivas, Dr. Pablo Morales, Mr. Jesus Lopez, Dr. Joseph Wagner, Dr. Jennifer Bibevski, Dr. Arvind Agarwal, Dr. Florence George, and Dr. Sharan Ramaswamy - Tissue Engineering Part A. December 5, 2019
Conceptually, a tissue engineered heart valve (TEHV) would be especially appealing in the pediatric setting since small size and somatic growth constraints would be alleviated. Here, we utilized porcine small intestinal submucosa (PSIS) for valve replacement... … the Dacron tubes housing the PSIS valves were measured in order to secure the valve‐in‐ conduit (Figure 1) in the mitral position within a pulse duplicator system (ViVitro Labs, Victoria, BC) … A pulse duplicator system… ... Our findings suggest that the altered structural responses of PSIS, post-fatigue, rather than de novo tissue formation, are primarily responsible for the valve’s ability to accommodate somatic growth during the acute phase (90 days) following mitral valve replacement...
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Visit SourceMichael J Paulsen, Annabel M Imbrie-Moore, Hanjay Wang, Jung Hwa Bae, Camille E Hironaka, Justin M Farry, Haley J Lucian, Akshara D Thakore, John W MacArthur, Jr, Mark R Cutkosky, Y Joseph Woo - European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, ezz258
Posterior ventricular anchoring neochordal (PVAN) repair is a non-resectional technique for correcting mitral regurgitation (MR) due to posterior leaflet prolapse, utilizing a single suture anchored in the myocardium behind the leaflet... ...Porcine mitral valves were mounted in a 3-dimensional-printed heart simulator and chordal forces, haemodynamics and echocardiography were collected at baseline, after inducing MR by severing chordae, and after PVAN repair.... ...PVAN repair eliminates MR by positioning the posterior leaflet for coaptation, distributing forces throughout the valve....
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Visit SourceJanarthanan Sathananthan MBChB, MPH Mark Hensey MB BCh BAO Rob Fraser MSc Uri Landes MD Philipp Blanke MD Hoda Hatoum PhD Lakshmi Prasad Dasi PhD Alexander Sedaghat MD Vinayak N Bapat MD Jonathon Leipsic MD Lars Søndergaard MD, DMSc David A. Wood MD John G. Webb MD - Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions October 2019
...Bench study assessed the hydrodynamic performance of different sizes of self‐expanding supra‐annular THVs in three different surgical aortic bioprostheses at different implantation depths.... ...A small versus medium ACURATE neo (ACn), and a 26 mm versus 29 mm Evolut R were assessed after VIV implantation in 25 mm Mitroflow, Mosaic, and Magna Ease aortic surgical bioprostheses, at three implantation depths (+2 mm, ‐2 mm, and ‐6 mm).... ...Use of a larger self‐expanding THV was associated with superior hydrodynamic performance if the THV was implanted high....
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Visit SourceJae H. Lee, Alex D. Rygg, Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz, Simone Rossi, Stephen M. Retta, Nandini Duraiswamy, Lawrence N. Scotten, Brent A. Craven, and Boyce E. Grith - ResearchGate 2019
This study describes work to develop dynamic computer models of BHVs in the aortic test section of an experimental pulse duplicator platform... ...We compare our numerical simulations to experimental data from two similar pulse duplicators, including a commercial ViVitro system and a custom platform related to the ViVitro pulse duplicator.... ...This work represents a step towards the experimental validation of this FSI modeling platform for evaluating BHVs....
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Visit SourceHH Yeh - 2019 UBC Theses and Dissertations
... thesis firstly evaluated the biomechanical contributions to ATAA progression under the influence of anatomy, hypertension, and hematocrit using fully coupled fluid-structure interaction (FSI) with arterial wall anisotropy to provide additional information in patient evaluations... ...The three different ATAA models identified different aortic expansions that were not uniform under pulsatile pressure and a geometry depended on elevated wall stress under hypertension.... ... A commercially available, 23 mm BMHV with a tissue annulus diameter / internal diameter (TAD/ID) of 18.5 mm (Figure 3.2), was used as the test model. ViVitro pulse duplicator was used to assess the performance and function of prosthetic heart valves under simulated cardiac conditions. ...
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Visit SourceYen Ngoc Nguyen, Edgar Lik Wui Tay, Foad Kabinejadian, Chi Wei Ong, Munirah Ismail, and Hwa Liang Leo -American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology 11 OCT 2019
The deteriorating nature of severe functional tricuspid regurgitation (FTR) has led to the heightened interest in this pathology... ...In this study, the hemodynamics of the right ventricle (RV) after (i) clover edge-to-edge tricuspid repair and (ii) double orifice tricuspid repair was evaluated in three right heart models using an ex vivo pulsatile platform emulating severe FTR with the aid of stereoscopic particle image velocimetry... … circulation (35). A closed ventricular chamber housing the silicon RV model was directly 184 connected to the pulsatile wave-generating piston pump (SuperPump AR series, ViVitro Labs 185 Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) to …
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Visit SourceOng, C. W.; Kabinejadian, F.; Xiong, F.; Wong, Y. R.; Toma, M.; Nguyen, Y. N.; Chua, K. J.; Cui, F. S.; Ho, P.; Leo, H. - Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics . Nov2019, Vol. 12 Issue 6, p1855-1872. 18p.
Thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) is a severe cardiovascular disease with a high mortality rate, if left untreated... ...In order to gain more insight on TAA formation, we developed a computational framework in vitro to investigate and compare the flow patterns between pre-aneurismal and post-aneurismal aorta using a deformable wall model... ...The pulsatile flow was created using a piston pump (SuperPump AR series, ViVitro Labs Inc., Victoria, BC, Canada) generating the inlet velocity profile with the How rate of 4 L/min at the frequency of 1 Hz, extracted from the literature …
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Visit SourceAmanda Barreto,Asad M. Mirza, Daniel Chaparro, Ahmed Z. Ali, Rachel Montlavan, Joshua D. Hutcheson, Sharan Ramaswamy - FIU Digital Commons
... Aortic valve calcification (AVC) is caused by defects in the valves and it is a health condition which usually requires surgical valve replacement... ...The proposed project aims to capture images of the aortic leaflet curvature while cyclic flexure is conducted... The curvature of the leaflets will be captured using two high-frame rate video systems. The aortic valve leaflet flexure experiments will be produced using a Vivitro Pulse Duplicator (Vivitro Labs Inc. Victoria, BC, Canada) …
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Visit SourceC Settanni, T Becker, A Ducruet, W Merritt, A Huckleberry - Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery (JNIS) Volume 11, Issue Suppl 1
Although current microcatheter technologies have advanced in recent years, corresponding endovascular devices still lag behind... ...This research project includes development of innovative in vitro aneurysm vessel model with complex side branching.... … communicating (ACA) bifurcation. Flow is regulated through the use of a Super Pump AR (ViVitro Labs). This 3D printed model will be implemented in an in vitro flow model that enables systemic data collection. A data acquisition … ...The in vitro model is used to simulate and quantify short-and long-term viability of new biomaterials for brain aneurysm embolization...
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Visit SourceImmanuel David Madukauwa-DavidVahid SadriPrem A MidhaVasilis BabaliarosCyrus AidunAjit P. Yoganathan - Annals of Biomedical Engineering First Online: 16 July 2019
Transcatheter heart valve (THV) leaflet thrombosis in the neo-sinus and associated reduced leaflet motion is of clinical concern due to risks of embolism and worsened valve hemodynamics... ...We tested two replicas of FDA approved commercial THVs—intra-annular and supra-annular (similar to the SAPIEN 3 and CoreValve families)—in a left heart simulator with coronary flow... … The Georgia Tech left heart simulator is shown in Fig. 2a. The main flow rate was driven by the primary piston pump (Vivitro Labs Inc. Victoria, Canada); wall-tapped pressure transducers (Deltran DPT-200, Utah Medical Products Inc
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