Fluid dynamics study for left atrial thrombus prediction in heart transplant patients

In some transplanted hearts, left atrial thrombus is generated outside the left atrial appendage and without the patient being in atrial fibrillation. This is shockingly in disagreement with standard clinical knowledge in non-transplanted patients. The main goal of this project is to run computational fluid dynamics simulations, based on the tools developed in PhySense during the last years, and shed some light on this interesting clinical question. The project will be performed in collaboration with clinicians at Hospital Sant Pau, where they have complete imaging data of this type of patients.

Supervisor: Oscar Camara, Carlos Albors, Abdel Hakim Mustafa (Hospital Sant Pau)