Mamoru Takahashi1, Yasuo Takehara2,
Hiroyasu Takeda2, Masaki Terada3, Haruo Isoda4,
Tetsuya Wakayama5, Atsushi Nozaki5, Toshiyuki Shimizu6,
Marcus Alley7, Roland Bammer7, Norihiko Siiya2,
Norihiro Tooyama, Katsutoshi Ichijo, Harumi Sakahara2
1Radiology, Seirei
Mikatahara General Hospital , Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan; 2Hamamatsu
University School of Medicine; 3Iwata City Hosipital; 4Nagoya
University School of Health Sciences; 5GE Helthcare Japan; 6R's
Tech Co.; 7Stanford University School of Medicine
Hemodynamic patterns of the abdominal aorta were assessed with streamlines and pathlines, and wall shear stress was analyzed on color coded cine maps postprocessing 4D Flow data. As a result, kinking aorta suffered vortex or turbulent flow at the inner curvature of the aorta mainly during the early-diastole and this resulted in significantly low wall shear stress of the corresponding portion, while non-kinking aorta did not. Kinks of the abdominal aorta create vorticity or turbulence of the blood flow at the inner curvature of the kinking aorta,@which may have further atherogenic effect of the corresponding aortic wall.
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