A surgeon can spend years performing vascular sutures and still have no reliable way of knowing whether their technique is optimal. There is no immediate measure of quality, and meaningful feedback often only emerges much later through patient outcomes. This gap has quietly persisted in surgical education for decades.
Dr. Balazs Gasz, a cardiac surgeon who experienced this firsthand during his own training, founded YourAnastomosis to address the issue. The company developed a training platform where surgeons practise on case-specific 3D-printed anatomical models that replicate real patient anatomy, providing a realistic environment to perform vascular anastomoses without risk to patients.
What sets the platform apart is what happens after the procedure. YourAnastomosis uses Ansys Fluent and Ansys CFX, alongside finite element analysis, to simulate blood-flow behaviour and analyse the geometry of the completed anastomosis. The resulting data helps assess the quality of the procedure and estimate how the surgical connection is likely to perform under physiological conditions.
Through the Ansys Startup Program, eCon Engineering helped YourAnastomosis integrate and use Ansys simulation software despite the team’s limited engineering experience. This enabled the company to analyse each anastomosis performed on its training models and provide trainees with immediate, simulation-based feedback on how their surgical technique could influence blood flow and procedural outcomes.
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