Mathematical models for shear-induced blood damage based on vortex platform

Abstract

Non-physiological shear stress in Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) is considered to be an important trigger of blood damage, which has become the biggest shackle for clinical application. The researches on blood damage in literature were limited to qualitative but did not make much quantitative analysis. The purpose of this study was to investigate the quantitative influence of two flow-dependent parameters: shear stress (rotational speed) and exposure time on the shear-induced damage of red blood cells and von Willebrand Factor (vWF). A vortex blood-shearing platform was constructed to conduct in vitro experiments. Free hemoglobin assay and vWF molecular weight analysis were then performed on the sheared blood samples. MATLAB was used for regression fitting of original experimental data. The quantitative correlations between the hemolysis index, the degradation of high molecular weight vWF and the two flow-dependent parameters were found both following the power law model. The mathematic models indicated that the sensitivity of blood damage on red blood cells and vWF to exposure time was both greater than that of shear stress. Besides, the damage of vWF was more serious than that of red blood cells at the same flow condition. The models could be used to predict blood damage in blood-contacting medical devices, especially for the slow even stagnant blood flow regions in VAD, thus may provide useful guidance for VAD development and improvement. It also indicated that the vortex platform can be used to study the law of blood damage for the simple structure and easy operation.

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Hemolysis vWF shear stress exposure time power law model

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