TY - GEN
T1 - Distributions of arterial calcification along transcatheter delivery system pathway
AU - Holm, Mikayle
AU - Iaizzo, Paul A.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - Medical device designers must develop catheters that avoid harming the vascular pathway during therapy delivery. To better characterize the necessary design features to minimize damage to central and peripheral vessels, the vascular pathway used for femoral delivery of a cardiac device is studied through high resolution, computed tomography images of fresh, human cadavers. Comparisons of the amount and location of vessel calcification are made between specified anatomical sections. Though the potential complications may be less fatal, the descending aorta and iliac regions were found to be most susceptible to embolism in our analysis.
AB - Medical device designers must develop catheters that avoid harming the vascular pathway during therapy delivery. To better characterize the necessary design features to minimize damage to central and peripheral vessels, the vascular pathway used for femoral delivery of a cardiac device is studied through high resolution, computed tomography images of fresh, human cadavers. Comparisons of the amount and location of vessel calcification are made between specified anatomical sections. Though the potential complications may be less fatal, the descending aorta and iliac regions were found to be most susceptible to embolism in our analysis.
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U2 - 10.1115/DMD2019-3259
DO - 10.1115/DMD2019-3259
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
BT - Frontiers in Biomedical Devices, BIOMED - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
PB - American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
T2 - 2019 Design of Medical Devices Conference, DMD 2019
Y2 - 15 April 2019 through 18 April 2019
ER -