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Computational Fluid Dynamics Could Enable Individualized Surgical Treatment of Nasal Obstruction (A Preliminary Study)

Passage of nasal airflow during breathing is crucial in achieving accurate diagnosis and optimal therapy for patients with nasal disorders. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the dominant method for simulating and studying airflow. The present study aimed to create a CFD nasal airflow model to de...

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Autores principales: Plášek, Marek, Masárová, Michaela, Bojko, Marián, Komínek, Pavel, Matoušek, Petr, Formánek, Martin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36359486
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112642
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author Plášek, Marek
Masárová, Michaela
Bojko, Marián
Komínek, Pavel
Matoušek, Petr
Formánek, Martin
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Masárová, Michaela
Bojko, Marián
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description Passage of nasal airflow during breathing is crucial in achieving accurate diagnosis and optimal therapy for patients with nasal disorders. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the dominant method for simulating and studying airflow. The present study aimed to create a CFD nasal airflow model to determine the major routes of airflow through the nasal cavity and thus help with individualization of surgical treatment of nasal disorders. The three-dimensional nasal cavity model was based on computed tomography scans of the nasal cavity of an adult patient without nasal breathing problems. The model showed the main routes of airflow in the inferior meatus and inferior part of the common meatus, but also surprisingly in the middle meatus and in the middle part of the common nasal meatus. It indicates that the lower meatus and the lower part of the common meatus should not be the only consideration in case of surgery for nasal obstruction in our patient. CFD surgical planning could enable individualized precise surgical treatment of nasal disorders. It could be beneficial mainly in challenging cases such as patients with persistent nasal obstruction after surgery, patients with empty nose syndrome, and patients with a significant discrepancy between the clinical findings and subjective complaints.
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spelling pubmed-96896332022-11-25 Computational Fluid Dynamics Could Enable Individualized Surgical Treatment of Nasal Obstruction (A Preliminary Study) Plášek, Marek Masárová, Michaela Bojko, Marián Komínek, Pavel Matoušek, Petr Formánek, Martin Diagnostics (Basel) Article Passage of nasal airflow during breathing is crucial in achieving accurate diagnosis and optimal therapy for patients with nasal disorders. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the dominant method for simulating and studying airflow. The present study aimed to create a CFD nasal airflow model to determine the major routes of airflow through the nasal cavity and thus help with individualization of surgical treatment of nasal disorders. The three-dimensional nasal cavity model was based on computed tomography scans of the nasal cavity of an adult patient without nasal breathing problems. The model showed the main routes of airflow in the inferior meatus and inferior part of the common meatus, but also surprisingly in the middle meatus and in the middle part of the common nasal meatus. It indicates that the lower meatus and the lower part of the common meatus should not be the only consideration in case of surgery for nasal obstruction in our patient. CFD surgical planning could enable individualized precise surgical treatment of nasal disorders. It could be beneficial mainly in challenging cases such as patients with persistent nasal obstruction after surgery, patients with empty nose syndrome, and patients with a significant discrepancy between the clinical findings and subjective complaints. MDPI 2022-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9689633/ /pubmed/36359486 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112642 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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title_short Computational Fluid Dynamics Could Enable Individualized Surgical Treatment of Nasal Obstruction (A Preliminary Study)
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9689633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36359486
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12112642
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