The decision for surgical intervention in the treatment of stenosis and for regurgitation of the mitral valve demands an objective and quantitative evaluation of the severity of mitral valve disease. The availability of ultrasound techniques capable of analysing flow velocities across valves and to produce representative images of valve orifices has increased the interest in the hydraulics of cardiac valves. To isolate and study the determinants of transmitral flow, an in vitro model of the human left heart was built. From the model it is possible to differentiate the influence of the different determinants of left heart performance on transmitral flow: preload, compliance of the left atrium and ventricle, peripheral resistance (afterload) and heart rate. The mechanical part of the model consists of a reservoir connected to an elastic closed circuit (Latex pulmonary veins, left atrium, left ventricle and aortic arch) with replaceable mitral and aortic valves. The electronic part of the model drives and controls the hydraulic part, allowing the independent regulation and monitoring of left atrial and left ventricular pressures p, volumes V and 'pV-loops' throughout the cardiac cycle at different cardiac rhythms. Left atrial filling pressure and aortic resistance are variable in a controlled fashion. Echo-Doppler study of the mitral valve and the transmitral valve flow is possible both from an atrial and a ventricular window in the model. This technical note describes the model.
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