Int J Numer Method Biomed Eng
August 2024
The aortic valve (AV) is crucial for cardiovascular (CV) hemodynamic, impacting cardiac output (CO) and left ventricular volumetric flow rate (LVQ). Its nonlinear behavior challenges standard LVQ prediction methods as well as CO one. This study presents a novel approach for modeling the AV in the CV system, offering an improved method for estimating crucial parameters like LVQ across various AV conditions, including aortic stenosis (AS).
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October 2023
The hybrid mock circulatory loop (hMCL) serves as a crucial hemodynamic simulation tool, offering exceptional flexibility, controllability, and reproducibility for investigating the mechanisms underlying cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in a controlled environment, circumventing the limitations of live organism studies. This paper introduces a novel design and control strategy for hMCL, introducing a novel left ventricle volume-elastance (LVVE) equation that unifies the autoregulation of the Frank-Starling mechanism (FSM) with left ventricle contractility (LVC). LVVE establishes a dynamic link between left ventricular volume (LVV) and LVC, inherently satisfying the regulatory relationship between left ventricular pressure (LVP) and LVV through a mathematical equation.
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