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Effect of Bladder Wall Thickness Through Change of Bladder Volume and Material Properties on Detrusor activity Study

체적의 변화를 통한 방광벽 두께와 기계적 재료상수 변화가 배뇨근 활동에 미치는 영향

  • Jun, Su-Min (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang Univ.) ;
  • Lee, Moon-Kyu (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang Univ.) ;
  • Choi, Bum-Kyoo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sogang Univ.)
  • Received : 2011.03.23
  • Accepted : 2012.01.14
  • Published : 2012.05.01
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Abstract

The structural and functional disorder of a detrusor induces a bladder hypertrophy and degenerates a bladder muscle gradually by preventing normal urination. Thus, the thickness of the bladder wall has been increased in proportion to the degree of bladder outlet obstruction. In this study, the mechanical characteristics of the detrusor is analyzed for the physical properties and the thickness changes of the bladder muscle using a mathematically analytic method. In order to obtain the mechanical property of the bladder muscle, the tensile test of porcine bladder tissue is performed because its property is similar to that of human. The result of tensile test is applied to the mathematically model as Mooney Rivlin coefficients which represent the hyperelastic material. The model of the bladder is defined as the spherical shape with the initial volume of 50ml. The principal stress and strain according to the thickness are analyzed. Also, computer simulations for three types of the material property for the model of the bladder are performed based on the fact that the stiffness of the bladder is weakened as the progress of the benign prostatic hyperplasia. As a result, the principal stress is 341kPa at the initial thickness of 2.2mm, and is 249kPa at 6.5mm. As the bladder wall thickness increases, the principal stress decreases. The principal stress and strain decrease as the stiffness of the bladder decreases under the same thinkness.

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