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Fighting Cardiovascular Diseases with in silico Solutions

Computational modeling and simulation (CM&S) of cardiovascular devices and their working environment — the human body and heart — is the most promising way to accelerate and amplify medical innovation while limiting the risk for the patients through in silico research, in silico testing, and in silico clinical trials. 

Ansys simulations go beyond an advanced cardiovascular system model by using multiscale, multiphysics simulations in a suite of connected tools to provide a complete and pragmatic solution.

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Overcoming Cardiac Device Development Challenges 

With more than 30 percent of all deaths attributed to cardiovascular diseases, the healthcare industry invests massively in disease prevention, treatment, and efforts to shorten the recovery period. The extensive in vitro and in vivo testing required to ensure patient safety and regulatory approval inevitably slows the delivery of innovative implantable cardiovascular devices — stents, valves, or pacemakers/defibrillators — to those who need them the most. 

Leveraging the power of in silico medicine and developing a detailed and reliable multiphysics model of the device and its working environment provides the necessary insights to test and optimize new products, help accelerate regulatory approval, and save lives.

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Ansys Advantage Magazine 2024 Issue I: Simulation Transforms Healthcare

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Upcoming Webinars and Events

Heart Modeling

From Isolated Simulations to Holistic Workflows for Transcatheter Valve Replacement Design (January 30th, 2025)

This presentation highlights the current capabilities of automated workflows frequently used for transcatheter aortic valve replacements. With such workflows, bigger optimization loops utilizing a chain of complicated simulations become feasible and can even be repeated using arbitrary anatomies. This enables design engineers to assess their ideas under real-life loading conditions quickly.

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Ansys Connect Healthcare Webinar

Using Digital Transformation to Streamline Medical Device Development

To tackle development challenges, companies increasingly turn to methods like simulation, digital thread, and digitalization of data — core components of a digital transformation. Ansys envisions how technologies can enable digital transformation for the healthcare industry. This webinar explores that vision and the enabling software to support streamlining medical device development.

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Cardiovascular Symposium - Spring 2025

This two-hour event enables industry, academic, and regulatory professionals to share their evolving perspectives and requests for collaboration as we invite partners to review their cardiovascular modeling activities. This ecosystem will foster discussion and brainstorming toward more efficient collaboration to accelerate medical innovation in the cardiovascular field for the patient.

Interested in Other Healthcare Applications?

Visit our healthcare industry page to learn about more healthcare applications that can benefit from modeling and simulation. 

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Success Stories and Thought Leadership

Below is a currated list of success stories and thought leadership from our collegues, customers, and partners around the world using simulation to advance cardiovascular medical devices. 

Webinars

Heart Modeling

In-silico Modeling of the Patient-specific Heart

By coupling the structural model with the ventricular blood compartment, we can model venous return by assuring conservation of volume within the closed loop circulatory system. The resulting monolithic, multifield system of equations, provides a physiologically meaningful solution of heart contraction mechanics for in silico modeling of medical device and novel disease treatment.

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Ansys Connect Healthcare Webinar

Using Digital Transformation to Streamline Medical Device Development

In this webinar, we explore digital transformation in the healthcare industry and the software that supports streamlining medical device development.

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Simulation World 2024

3D Modeling and Flow Simulation in Complex Congenital Heart Disease

The engineering team at Boston Children’s Hospital performs virtual surgery on 3D models to reflect the planned operation or several options for repair. The use of 3D modeling and computational fluid dynamics has been transformational in the treatment of children with some of the most complex congenital heart diseases.

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Simulation World 2024

Using Predictive Engineering to Power Full-Life Cycle Product Development

Eric Corndorf of Medtronic discusses the compelling role that predictive engineering can play in all life cycle phases of a development program and the unique role that every member of a team can play in sponsoring predictive engineering.

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Blogs

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Beating the Competition With Total Artificial Hearts

Read how the inaugural winner of the Heart Hackathon competition used Ansys software to help build a total artificial heart (TAH) at University of Bath.

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Simulation: The Heart and Soul of Preoperative Planning

Boston Children’s Hospital has created preoperative planning using 3D simulation tools so surgeons can have multiple types of visualization and prediction.

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Heart Modeling

Get to the Heart of the Matter

Learn how Ansys’ dedicated Healthcare Research team is hoping to revolutionize the treatment of heart disease with their innovative heart-modeling methods.

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In Silico medicine

Discussing In Silico Medicine in Congress and Parliaments

Ansys has been instrumental in promoting the ISCT approach to U.S. Congress members and to parliament members in the EU and other regions of the world.

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Using Photoplethysmography (PPG) for Designing Optical Heart Rate Sensors

Did you know you can model human skin using Ansys Zemax OpticStudio? We'll demonstrate how using physiological measurements.

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Advancing Healthcare Through Academic Events

Ansys attends many healthcare-focused academic events to network and learn while showcasing its best-in-class products.

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Diagnosing Aneurysms in a Heartbeat with Ansys

See how MeDiTATe is using simulation in the diagnosis and treatment of aneurysms.

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Case Studies

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Ansys + Team Bath Heart

Learn how the inaugural winner of the Heart Hackathon competition used Ansys software to help build a TAH at University of Bath.

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Interested in Other Healthcare Applications?

Visit our healthcare industry page to learn about more healthcare applications that can benefit from modeling and simulation. 

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