| Grant number: | 18/14221-2 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation |
| Start date: | November 01, 2018 |
| End date: | October 31, 2019 |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Medicine |
| Principal Investigator: | Pedro Alves Lemos Neto |
| Grantee: | Gabriela Hidalgo Vargas dos Santos |
| Host Institution: | Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein (IIEPAE). Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein (SBIBAE). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract In medical practice, the knowledge of the vascular dimensions has a great relevance, because in cardiovascular interventions the treatment devices (stents, balloons) have to be dimensioned in concordance to the expected size of the vessel in which the intervention will occur, otherwise, the risk of adverse effects is enhanced. In this context, the possibility to predict the original radius of a sick vessel based on the radius of the vessels related to it can be important in medical interventions. Scientists like Murray proposed mathematical laws derived from fluid mechanics willing to mathematically correlate the diameter of the main vessel to the diameter of its branches. The "Murray's Law" states that: r03= r13 + r23, which means that the cubic root of the main vessel 's radius is equal to the sum of the cubic roots of its branches radius. Few studies, however, validated this law in humans. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate, trough the analysis of left coronary artery (LCA) and its branches (LAD and LCX) radius the application of Murray's law to human vessels and to estimate other potential equations that can adequately correlate the dimensions of coronary arteries and its bifurcations. | |
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