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Predicting 1-year in-stent restenosis in superficial femoral arteries through multiscale computational modelling

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In-stent restenosis in superficial femoral arteries (SFAs) is a complex, multi-factorial and multiscale vascular adaptation process whose thorough understanding is still lacking. Multiscale computational agent-based modelling has recently emerged as… Click to show full abstract

In-stent restenosis in superficial femoral arteries (SFAs) is a complex, multi-factorial and multiscale vascular adaptation process whose thorough understanding is still lacking. Multiscale computational agent-based modelling has recently emerged as a promising approach to decipher mechanobiological mechanisms driving the arterial response to the endovascular intervention. However, the long-term arterial response has never been investigated with this approach, although being of fundamental relevance. In this context, this study investigates the 1-year post-operative arterial wall remodelling in three patient-specific stented SFA lesions through a fully coupled multiscale agent-based modelling framework. The framework integrates the effects of local haemodynamics and monocyte gene expression data on cellular dynamics through a bi-directional coupling of computational fluid dynamics simulations with an agent-based model of cellular activities. The framework was calibrated on the follow-up data at 1 month and 6 months of one stented SFA lesion and then applied to the other two lesions. The calibrated framework successfully captured (i) the high lumen area reduction occurring within the first post-operative month and (ii) the stabilization of the median lumen area from 1-month to 1-year follow-ups in all the stented lesions, demonstrating the potentialities of the proposed approach for investigating patient-specific short- and long-term responses to endovascular interventions.

Keywords: year; superficial femoral; multiscale computational; femoral arteries; restenosis superficial; stent restenosis

Journal Title: Journal of the Royal Society Interface
Year Published: 2023

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