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Biomechanical Analysis of Left Ventricle Considering Myocardial Infarction and Regenerative Therapy Using Dynamic Finite Element Method

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Shahrul Hisyam Marwan1,2 and Mitsugu Todo1,3*

1Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

2College of Engineering, University Technology MARA, Terengganu, Malaysia.

3Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

*Corresponding Author: Mitsugu Todo, Associate Professor Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University

Received: 08 May 2021; Accepted: 18 May 2021; Published: 21 May 2021

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Shahrul Hisyam Marwan, Mitsugu Todo, Biomechanical Analysis of Left Ventricle Considering Myocardial Infarction and Regenerative Therapy Using Dynamic Finite Element Method. Journal of Biotechnology and Biomedicine 4 (2021): 10-25.

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Abstract

It is well known that myocardial infarction (MI) greatly degrades the pulsation function of the heart. Such MI may gradually grow in size and harden as ischemic necrosis proceeds, resulting in further degradation of its pulsation behavior. However, regenerative therapy has successfully been used in the medical treatment of MI, specifically the use of cell sheet technology. In this procedure, thin sheets of biomechanical effects of regenerative therapy on the LV with MI. A simple 3D finite element model of a LV was developed and dynamic FEA with a cardiac mechanics theory was conducted to simulate the time-dependent cyclic deformation behavior. It was found that increasing size and stiffness of the MI dramatically reduced both the maximum displacement of beating mechanical behavior. It was also determined that the cardiac cell sheet regenerative therapy can effectively restore the pulsation function.

Keywords

Myocardial infarction; Human heart; Dynamic finite element method; Cardiac mechanics

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Article Details

1. Introduction

The primary function of heart is to distribute blood through the circulatory system for the maintenance of life. Therefore, if the heart has a severe problem, such as myocardial infarction (MI), the life of the patient could be in severe danger. MI occurs when blood flow at a coronary artery dramatically decreases due to arteriosclerosis and hence blood supply to the heart muscle is significantly reduced, resulting in severe damage to the myocardium [1,2]. If MI occurs, it can deteriorate the cardiac function and increase the risk of heart failure. Worldwide, MI is said to be one of the most significant causes of mortality and morbidity [3-6], for instance there are about 1.5 million annual deaths in the United States associated with MI [7]. The mortality of MI has decreased significantly through the development of revascularization therapies, such as coronary artery bypass grafting, thrombolytic agents, and percutaneous coronary intervention [8]. Nevertheless, the occurrence of heart failure due to MI has not essentially dropped [9]. An inadequate blood supply to the heart may result in the death of normal heart muscle tissue through necrosis, apoptosis, and/or autophagy and the subsequent development of scar tissue decreases the capability of heart contraction [10,11]. Since adult cardiomyocytes have limited regenerative capacity, the damage can be permanent, which can result in heart failure and death [12-14].

Over the past two decades, complex medical treatments have been developed for cardiac transplantation; however, donor shortage is a major challenge that limits this approach. In addition, immunosuppressive drug therapy is required to be taken by the transplant patients after surgery to reduce the risk of transplant rejection, which comes with a whole host of negative side-effects [14]. To overcome these problems, regenerative medicine of the heart has extensively been investigated, and some clinical techniques have effectively been developed.

Very recently, an effective regenerative medicine technique for damaged hearts has been developed and clinically investigated at Osaka University Hospital. Their technique uses the cell sheet technology developed by Okano’s group of Tokyo Women’s Medical University to construct muscle cell sheets and attach them to the surfaces of the damaged hearts [15,16]. Shimizu et al. used temperature-sensitive culture dish surfaces and support materials to develop the two-dimensional manipulation of functional cardiac myocyte sheets, which demonstrated a heart tissue-like structure and indicated electrical pulsatile amplitude [17]. Sawa et al. produced such cell sheets from human tibialis anterior muscle and used them for the treatment of damaged hearts; however, the skeletal myoblasts could not beat synchronously with the host myocardium in vitro and could not functionally perform together [18]. Itabashi el al. also revealed that some of the skeletal myoblasts had automaticity but contracted independently and not synchronously as a single tissue, because the skeletal myoblast was electrically isolated from the surrounding myocardium and the electrical stimulation-induced excitation did not extend within skeletal myoblast sheets [19].

Takahashi and Yamanaka reported the latest development using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, which can be differentiated into various types of

cells, such as cardiomyocytes, nerve cells, and cartilage [20]. Since then, a lot of research has been conducted to show that cardiomyocytes derived from iPS cells demonstrate functional, electrophysiological, and microstructural similarities to natural cardiomyocytes [21]. Sawa and Miyagawa developed cardiomyocyte sheets derived from human iPS (hiPS) cells and showed that they had the ability to contract synchronously in vitro and vivo [22]. It was also shown that a transplantation of hiPS cells was able to functionally recover the upregulated electrical potential of damaged heart tissue areas in large [23] and small [24] animal MI models. Kawamura et al. also reported that hiPS cell transplantation contributed significantly to an increase in cardiomyocyte function in damaged heart tissue [25]. Finally, just recently, hiPS cell derived cardiomyocyte (hiPS-CM) cell sheets were transplanted into the damaged heart of a MI patient. Although the clinical application of hiPS-CM cell sheets has successfully been conducted, the mechanical effects of such cell sheet transplantations have not yet been clearly understood.

On the other hand, dynamic finite element analyses of the heart have actively been conducted to understand the mechanical functions of the vital organ [26]. Finite element (FE) models have been used to investigate the effects of injecting a biocompatible material into the wall of the left ventricle (LV) to combat the progression of heart failure [27,28]. Wenk et al. developed an ellipsoidal LV FE model to study the optimal distribution of multiple spherical injectates [29]. Miller et al. [30] and Kortsmit et al. [31] also modelled the striated and bulk injectate distribution observed preclinically [32-34], as the discrete sheet-like structures embedded within the myocardium in a human LV model and a canine biventricular model, respectively. Sirry et al. presented a more realistic microstructurally detailed geometry of striated polyethylene glycol hydrogel injectate in an infarcted rat heart [35]. However, computational analyses of regenerative therapy of the heart using cell sheet technology have not yet been conducted.

The aim of this study, therefore, was to develop simple 3D models of a human LV to study the effects of MI on its beating behavior, and furthermore to model and analyze the mechanical effects of cell sheets attached to the damaged areas of the heart with MI.

2. Methods

2.1 Development of simple 3D models of normal and damaged human hearts

A 3D finite element (FE) model of a simplified left ventricle (LV) of human heart was constructed using 3D CAD software JVision 3.6 (Liverware Software, Livermore, CA) as shown in Figure 1. The dimensions of the LV model were determined from the references [36-39], and the length, diameter and thickness were set to 120.0, 40.0, and 6.0 mm, respectively. The FE heart model consisted of total 2703 nodes and 1800 hexahedral elements with 8 nodes. An anisotropic heart model was used to express the dynamic pulsation behavior of the elements of the LV model. The mathematical modeling of the heart model is described in the following section.

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Figure 1: 3D model of simplified left ventricle

A simple MI model of square shape was then introduced into the LV model to imitate a damaged heart tissue as shown in Figure 2. The material model of MI was assumed to be the standard linear elastic solid with Young's modulus of 1 or 10 Pa to assess the effect of the modulus on the pulsation behavior, and Poisson’s ratio of 0.4. Three different sizes of the MI model were also considered by changing the number of elements, namely, Small with 2x2 elements, Medium with 4x4 elements, and Large with 8x8 elements as shown in Fig.2. Three different positions of Small MI (2x2) were also introduced into the LV model as shown in Figure 3. The MI model was located inside (Endocardial), outside (Epicardial) or through thickness (Transmural).

As a regenerative therapy model, a simple, square-shape cardiac tissue patch, imitating the iPS derived cardiac cell sheet, was introduced into the LV model with the transmural MI as shown in Figure 4. The FE model of the cardiac tissue patch was developed by creating new elements attached to the surface of the LV model and fully covering the MI model. The patch and the MI models consisted of 10x10 and 4x4 elements, respectively.

In the present dynamic FE analysis, the self-pulsation induced by the sarcomeres of cardiac cells was simulated using the anisotropic heart model, and no external force related to blood pressure was considered. Therefore, no mechanical boundary condition was given to the LV model. As the geometric boundary condition, all the nodes of the top surface of the LV model were fixed in the X-direction as shown in Figure 5. These FE models were then exported to the dynamic finite element code LS-DYNA (Liverware Software, Livermore, CA) to conduct the dynamic finite element analysis.

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Figure 2: 3D LV model with three different MI models.

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Figure 3: MI models with different positions (cross sectional view from top).

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Figure 4: Regenerative therapy model with 4x4 MI and 10x10 cell sheet patch.

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Figure 5: Geometric boundary condition of the LV model.

2.2 Modelling of active stress induced by sarcomeres

The normal heart tissue and the cardiac cell sheet patch were modeled using the anisotropic heart material model in order to simulate the pulsation behavior activated micromechanically by sarcomeres. This heart tissue model was developed by setting proper parameters for the Guccione’s model to regenerate the active beating behavior of the left ventricle without blood pressure [40-42]. The macroscopic mechanical behavior was assumed to be hyperelastic, and the active compressive stress component was added into the equation which correlates the stress components with the strain energy potential. The strain energy potential, W, that is anisotropic relative to the local fiber direction is defined by:

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where C is a material constant, and Q is defined by:

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where α and β are the material constants, and Eij (i,j = 1,2,3) are the Green strain components. The active stress, T0, is then defined by:

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where

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and

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With

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where T max is the isometric tension achieved at the longest sarcomere length, and Ca0 and (Ca0) max are the dynamic variation of calcium intracellular concentration and the maximum peak intracellular calcium concentration, respectively. B, m and b are constants, l is the sarcomere length and l0 and lR are the sarcomere length values at which no active tension develops and in the unloaded reference configuration, respectively. From Eqs. (1), (2) and (3), the second Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor is defined as the sum of the passive stress derived from the strain energy function and the active stress component T0:

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where p is the hydrostatic pressure to enforce the kinematic constraint, δ1k the Kronecker delta, and gkl the contravariant metric tensor referred to fiber coordinates and defined by:

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where μk is the fiber coordinates and xm are deformed rectangular Cartesian coordinates.

In the present FE modeling, the fiber direction was set to the circumferential direction, and therefore, the elements of the anisotropic heart model tended to shrink towards that direction. Hence, the entire LV model tended to elongate in the longer direction.

3. Results and discussion

Pulsation behavior of simple LV model:

The deformed images of the normal LV model are shown in Figure 6. It is seen that the pulsation behavior was clearly regenerated by introducing the time-dependent active stress component. The LV model elongated in the longer direction due to the shrinkage of all the elements in the circumferential direction. The X-displacements of the LV model is also shown in Figure 7. The time interval of the first pulsation is 1.6 s, and the maximum value of X-displacement is 13.8 mm which is much larger than that of Y and Z-displacement (the maximum value is 2.35 mm). Therefore, in the following sections, the X-displacement was chosen to be compared in order to examine the effects of the size, location and Young’s modulus of MI.

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Figure 6: Beating behavior of the LV model.

3.1 Effects of MI on the pulsation behavior of LV model

Time-dependent behavior of X- displacement of the normal and the damaged LV models with three different MIs (Young’s modulus: 1Pa) are shown in Figure 8. It is clearly seen that the pulsation behavior tends to degrade with the existence of MI. Furthermore, the degree of degradation obviously increases as the size of MI increases. The effects of MI size and Young’s modulus of MI on the maximum X-displacements are shown in Figure 9. It is understood that the maximum displacement significantly decreases with increases of both MI size and Young’s modulus. The smallest decrease is about 8 % in the 2x2 MI with 1 Pa modulus model, while the largest decrease is about 77 % in the 8x8 MI with 10 Pa model.

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Figure 7: Time-variation of X-displacement of the LV model.

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Figure 8: Time-variation of X-displacement of the normal and MI models.

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Figure 9: Effects of MI size and Young’s modulus on maximum X-displacement.

The effects of MI location and Young’s modulus on the maximum X-displacements are shown in Figure 10. Although the transmural MI exhibits the largest decrease, the differences between the three MI locations were not so significant. It is naturally understood that the transmural MI results in the worst case, as the damage is spread across the whole thickness. The damaged regions of both the endocardial and epicardial models cover only half the thickness, leaving normal healthy cardiac tissue in the other half thickness. The pulsation motion of the half normal region is restrained however, by the damaged tissue which is modelled as a linear elastic material and therefore, the degradation behaviors in the endocardial and epicardial are considered to be comparable to that of the transmural.

If sudden blockage occurs in the coronary artery, it can result in an inadequate supply of oxygenated blood to the myocardium, leading to myocardial necrosis [7]. This also affects the cardiac mechanics by causing regional myocardial dysfunction, increasing myocardial stiffness, and finally leading to heart failure [7, 43]. Mazumder R. et al. studied the stiffness of cardiac tissues using magnetic resonance elastography, which is a noninvasive imaging technique for measuring soft-tissue stiffness in vivo and concluded that the myocardial infarcts were much stiffer than the remote myocardium [7]. In a clinical study, Zhang H. et al. also found that the pulsation function is depressed when MI occurs, and that the condition becomes much worse when the MI size and stiffness also increase [44]. The results of the present simulation using the simple LV model with the simplified MI models are reasonably comparable with those experimental and clinical studies, suggesting that the simulation models can be used to predict such cardiac problems on the mechanical performance of the heart.

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Figure 10: Effects of MI type and Young’s modulus on maximum X-displacement.

3.1 Effects of regenerative therapy with cardiac patch on pulsation behavior

The displacements of the six nodes shown in Figure 11 were used to assess the effects of the regenerative therapy on the dynamic pulsation motion. The displacement vectors at the point D, E and F are shown in Figure 12. The green, red and blue arrows indicate the normal, MI, and patch therapy models, respectively. It is clearly seen that the length and direction of the red arrow (MI model) are very different from those of the green arrow (normal model), indicating that the displacement of those surface nodes are disturbed by the existence of the MI model which cannot generate the autogenous pulsation movement. Although the length of the blue arrow (patch therapy model) is till shorter than that of the green arrow at all the three nodes, the direction of the blue arrow becomes close to that of the green arrow, suggesting that the existence of the cardiac cell sheet patch tends to recover the normal pulsation movement.

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Figure 11: Six different points at which displacements were evaluated.

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Figure 12: Displacement vectors at three different points. Green, Red, and Blue arrows indicate the normal, MI, and patch therapy models, respectively.

Differences of the displacement components between two nodes located at the opposite positions were also calculated in order to examine the symmetric deformation behavior of the LV model. Three sets of nodes, A-D, C-E and D-F (see Figure 11) were examined in this analysis. The results are summarized in Table 1. In the normal model, all the three sets exhibit no difference, indicating that the pulsation motion is purely symmetric. On the contrary, the MI model shows some differences in almost all the displacement components. Thus, the pulsation motion of the MI model can be understood as an asymmetric motion. Although the patch therapy model still exhibits slight asymmetry, the differences are much smaller than those of the MI model. Especially, the differences of X-displacement at all the three sets become zero, while the MI model has 1.7 mm at C-E and 0.9 mm at D-F.

Points

Model

X-displacement (mm)

Y-displacement

Z-displacement

(mm)

(mm)

A-D

Normal

0

0

0

MI

0

-0.084

-0.8

Patch therapy

0

0

0.01

Normal

0

0

0

C-E

MI

1.7

0.015

0.14

Patch therapy

0

-0.01

-0.08

Normal

0

0

0

D-F

MI

0.9

0.087

0.83

Patch therapy

0

0.012

0.12

Table 1: Difference of displacement components.

It is known that clinically, cell sheet patches have the ability to contract synchronously in hearts, and also repair heart disease such as myocardial infarction. According to Ishida et al. and Minami I. et al., regenerative patches using iPS-derived cardiac cells are able to repair MI without ethical concerns [45,46]. Our simulation results successfully showed slight recovery of dynamic pulsation motion by introducing the cardiac patch of square shape. In the actual clinical situations, such cardiac patches also have biological effects on the damaged heart tissue and will recover the pulsation motion more effectively. According to Guo R. et al, patch implementation is essential to improve cardiac function in terms of contraction [16]. Based on previous studies related to myocardial infarction of the animal model, the patch greatly improved systolic function, and to a certain degree also improved diastolic function [15,47].

5. Conclusion

In conclusion, a dynamic finite element model of the left ventricle was developed using Guccione’s active stress model. Pulsation behavior of the heart was successfully simulated using this heart model. Myocardial infarction model was introduced into the heart model as a damaged tissue. It was seen that larger damaged areas with greater Young's moduli resulted in decreasing the maximum displacement of pulsation. Different locations of damaged tissue were also introduced into the heart model. It was seen that the transmural type of MI results in a poorer outcome, when compared to the endocardial and epicardial type. Regenerative therapy was also modelled, by introducing a regenerated cardiac patch onto the damaged heart surface. This study found that such patch therapy is able to restore pulsation functions somewhat close to the normal condition.

Disclosure Statement

Dr. Mitsugu Todo has nothing to disclose.

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