Effect of vessel compression on blood flow in microvascular networks: implications for tumour tissue hypoxia
Enjalbert, R.; Krueger, T.; Bernabeu, M. O.
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The tumour microenvironment is abnormal and one of its consequences is that blood vessels are compressed. Vessel compression correlates with reduced survival rates, while decompression of vessels improves tissue oxygenation as well as increases survival rates. Vessel compression contributes, at a single vascular bifurcation, to the increase of heterogeneity of red blood cell (RBC) transport. However, the effect that vessel compression has at a network level is unknown. This work numerically investigates the effect of vessel compression on RBC transport in microvascular networks. The key findings are that vessel compression both reduces the average haematocrit, and increases haematocrit heterogeneity, in vessels in the network. The mechanisms for these changes in haematocrit distribution are unravelled, and a parameter sweep shows that networks with lower inlet haematocrits are more susceptible to haemodilution from vessel compression over a wide range of compressed fraction of a network. These findings provide a theoretical underpinning for the link between vessel compression and tumour tissue hypoxia.
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