D. Rodney Hose

TL;DR: The adoption of CFD modelling signals a new era in cardiovascular medicine and a number of academic and commercial groups are addressing the associated methodological, regulatory, education- and service-related challenges.

TL;DR: A computer model that accurately predicts myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) from angiographic images alone, in patients with coronary artery disease, was developed and was reliably predicted without the need for invasive measurements or inducing hyperemia.

TL;DR: Virtual fractional flow reserve has emerged as an attractive alternative to invasive FFR by delivering physiological assessment without the factors that limit the invasive technique, and is likely to become a desirable tool in the functional assessment of coronary artery disease.

TL;DR: Three computational fluid methodologies are employed, of varying levels of complexity with coupled 0D boundary conditions, to simulate the haemodynamics within a patient-specific aorta, demonstrating that, in the context of certain clinical questions, the simpler analysis methods may capture the important characteristics of the flow field.

TL;DR: In this article, two mathematical methods (steady and pseudotransient) were developed that accelerate the computation of vFFR from >36h to <36h using paired steady-state CFD analyses, without the need for computationally expensive, full transient CFD analysis.