Torrents of torment: turbulence as a mechanism of pulsatile tinnitus secondary to venous stenosis revealed by high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics.
Vitor M PereiraNicole Mariantonia CancelliereMehdi NajafiDan MacDonaldThangam NatarajanIvan RadovanovicTimo KringsJohn RutkaPatrick NicholsonDavid A SteinmanPublished in: Journal of neurointerventional surgery (2020)
For the first time, turbulence generated distal to a venous stenosis is shown to be a cause of PT. High-fidelity CFD may be useful for identifying patients with such 'torrents' of flow, to help guide treatment decision-making.