Flow Analysis of Central Venous Outflow Tract: A New Approach to Understanding Pulse‐Synchronous Tinnitus

Author:

Reddy Adithya1ORCID,Pan Yu2,Finberg Ariel1,Dong Haibo2,Kesser Bradley1

Affiliation:

1. Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA

2. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of Virginia Charlottesville Virginia USA

Abstract

AbstractObjectivePulse‐synchronous tinnitus (PST) has been linked to multiple anatomical variants of the central venous outflow tract (CVOT) including sigmoid sinus (SS) dehiscence and diverticulum. This study investigates flow turbulence, pressure, and wall shear stress along the CVOT and proposes a mechanism that results in SS dehiscence and PST.Study DesignCase series.SettingTertiary Academic Center.MethodsVenous models were reconstructed from computed tomography scans of 3 patients with unilateral PST. Two models for each patient are obtained: a symptomatic and contralateral asymptomatic side. A turbulent model‐enabled commercial flow solver was used to simulate the pulsatile blood flow over the cardiac cycle through the models. Fluid flow through the transverse and SS junction was analyzed to observe the velocity, pressure, turbulent kinetic energy (TKE), and shear stress over a simulated cardiac cycle.ResultsFluid flow on the symptomatic side showed increased vorticity in the presence of an SS diverticulum. Higher TKE with periodicity following the cardiac cycle was observed on the symptomatic side, and a sharp increase was observed if SS diverticulum was present. Shear stress was highest near the narrowest segments of the vessel. Pressure was observed to be lower on the symptomatic side at the transverse‐SS junction for all 3 patients.ConclusionComputational fluid dynamics modeling of blood flow through the CVOT in PST suggests that low pressure may be the cause of dehiscence, and tinnitus may result from periodic increases in TKE.

Publisher

Wiley

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