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ArticleScientific reports2021

Novel CFD modeling approaches to assessing urine flow in prostatic urethra after transurethral surgery.

Bin Zhang, Shuang Liu, Yinxia Liu, Bo Wu, Xuhui Zhang, Xin Wang, Xuezhi Liang, Xiaoming Cao, Dongwen Wang, Chin-Lee Wu

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bin ZhangDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Shuang LiuDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Yinxia LiuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Shanxi Health Vocational College, Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine School, Jinzhong, 030600, Shanxi, China.
Bo WuDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Xuhui ZhangDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Xin WangDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Xuezhi LiangDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Xiaoming CaoDepartment of Urology, First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, 030001, Shanxi, China.
Dongwen WangNational Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital & Shenzhen Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, No. 113 Baohe road, Longgang district, Shenzhen, 518116, China. urology2007@126.com.
Chin-Lee WuDepartment of Urology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Shanxi Medical University · CNFirst Hospital of Shanxi Medical University · CNMassachusetts General Hospital · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Assessment of the pressure and velocity of urine flow for different diameter ratios of prostatic urethra (RPU) after transurethral surgery using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). A standardized and idealized two-dimensional CFD model after transurethral surgery (CATS-1st) was developed for post-surgery mid-voiding. Using CATS-1st, 210 examples were amplified according to an array of size [3][5][14], which contained three groups of longitudinal diameters of prostatic urethra (LD-PU). Each of these groups contained five subgroups of transverse diameters of the bladder neck (TD-BN), each with 14 examples of transverse diameters of PU (TD-PU). The pressure and velocity of urine flow were monitored through flow dynamics simulation, and the relationship among RPU-1 (TD-PU/TD-BN), RPU-2 (RPU-1/LD-PU), the transverse diameter of the vortex, and the midpoint velocity of the external urethral orifice (MV-EUO) was determined. A total of 210 CATS examples, including CATS-1st examples, were analyzed. High (bladder and PU) and medium/low (the rest of the urethra) pressure zones, and low (bladder), medium (PU), and high (the rest of the urethra) velocity zones were determined. The rapid changes in the velocity were concentrated in and around the PU. Laminar flow was present in all the examples. The vortices appeared and then gradually shrank with reducing RPU on both the sides of PU in 182 examples. In the vortex examples, minimum RPU-1 and RPU-2 reached close to the values of 0.79 and 0.02, respectively. MV-EUO increased gradually with decreasing RPU. In comparison to the vortex examples, the non-vortex examples exhibited a significantly higher (p < 0.01) MV-EUO. The developed CFD models (CATS) presented an effective simulation of urine flow behavior within the PU after transurethral surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). These models could prove to be useful for morphological repair in PU after transurethral surgery.

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Computer SimulationHydrodynamicsAgedHumansMaleProstateProstatic HyperplasiaUrethraUrination

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