Flow reversal promotes intimal thickening in vein grafts

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Yong HeScott A Berceli

Abstract

After vascular interventions, unidentified mechanisms disrupt the homeostasis of a focal narrowing to initiate an intimal thickening response. We hypothesize that perturbations in the hemodynamic microenvironment are the initiating event for this disruption of homeostasis and intimal thickening in vein bypass grafts. The objective of this study was to investigate the relation between local flow perturbations and its influence on the vein graft architecture. An external ligature was used to create an 80% focal midgraft stenosis in bilateral rabbit carotid vein grafts. A unilateral distal ligation created a ninefold difference in flow rate between high-flow and low-flow grafts. Ten vein grafts were harvested at 28 days and serially sectioned for morphologic evaluation and vein graft reconstruction. Computational fluid dynamics analyses were performed to examine the hemodynamic environment within these complex flow regions. The largest intimal thickening occurred exclusively within the region immediately distal to the maximum stenosis in high-flow grafts, which was characterized by persistent flow separation and reversal for the entire cardiac cycle. In regions of low to moderate shear stress (<5 Pa), the typical inverse correlati...Continue Reading

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