Mathematical modeling of radiofrequency ablation for varicose veins

DOI10.1155/2014/485353MaRDI QIDQ2330177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Sun Young Choi, Byung Kook Kwak, Taewon Seo

Publication date 21 October 2019

Published in Computational \& Mathematical Methods in Medicine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/485353

zbMATH Keywords

blood flowradiofrequency ablationvaricose veins

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with biology, chemistry and other natural sciences (35Q92) Physiological flow (92C35)

Review text

Summary: We present a three-dimensional mathematical model for the study of radiofrequency ablation (RFA) with blood flow for varicose vein. The model designed to analyze temperature distribution heated by radiofrequency energy and cooled by blood flow includes a cylindrically symmetric blood vessel with a homogeneous vein wall. The simulated blood velocity conditions are \(U = 0, 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 20\), and 40 mm/s. The lower the blood velocity, the higher the temperature in the vein wall and the greater the tissue damage. The region that is influenced by temperature in the case of the stagnant flow occupies approximately 28.5\% of the whole geometry, while the region that is influenced by temperature in the case of continuously moving electrode against the flow direction is about 50\%. The generated RF energy induces a temperature rise of the blood in the lumen and leads to an occlusion of the blood vessel. The result of the study demonstrated that higher blood velocity led to smaller thermal region and lower ablation efficiency. Since the peak temperature along the venous wall depends on the blood velocity and pullback velocity, the temperature distribution in the model influences ablation efficiency. The vein wall absorbs more energy in the low pullback velocity than in the high one.

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