Investigating the Mechanical Behavior of Clot Analogues Through Experimental and Computational Analysis.

Annals of Biomedical Engineering
Sarah JohnsonJ Patrick McGarry

Abstract

With mechanical thrombectomy emerging as the new standard of care for stroke treatment, clot analogues provide an extremely useful tool in the testing and design of these treatment devices. The aim of this study is to characterise the mechanical behavior of thrombus analogues as a function of composition. Platelet-contracted clot analogues were prepared from blood mixtures of various hematocrits. Mechanical testing was performed whereby clots were subjected to unconfined compression between two rigid plates. Two loading protocols were imposed: cyclic compression for 10 cycles at a constant strain-rate magnitude; stress-relaxation at a constant applied compressive strain. A hyper-viscoelastic constitutive law was identified and calibrated based on the experimental mechanical test data. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigated the clot microstructure at various time-points. Clot analogue composition was found to strongly affect the observed mechanical behavior. The SEM found that the microstructure of the clot analogues was affected by the storage solution and age of the clot. The proposed hyper-viscoelastic constitutive model was found to successfully capture the material test data. The results presented in this study are...Continue Reading

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Apr 6, 2021·Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology·Behrooz FereidoonnezhadPatrick J McGarry
Sep 4, 2021·Biophysical Journal·Koichiro TashiroAtsushi Hotta

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