Cardiac energetic efficiency is a ratio of cardiac workload to cardiac energy consumption, and cardiac workload is subject to vascular system. Although a number of computational circulation models have been developed, most of them represent the left ventricle as a time-varying elastance and so cannot compute cardiac energetic efficiency. In the present study, a cardiovascular dynamics model is introduced to assess cardiac energetic efficiency, by integrating a detailed ventricular cell model into a vasculature closed-loop circuit. The vasculature circuit is based on a vascular system model proposed by Heldt et al. (2004). Left ventricular pressure is converted, according to Laplace’s law, from the contractile force of ventricular myocyte which is calculated in a cell model by Kuzumoto et al. (2008). Despite combination of highly nonlinear sub-models, the present model successfully reproduce cardiac properties relating to energetic efficiency; response to variation of cardiac afterload, linearity of end-systolic pressure-volume relationship, and linear relationship between left ventricular oxygen consumption and pressure-volume area, which represents the total mechanical energy generated by ventricular contraction.
37th Congress of IUPS (Birmingham, UK) (2013) Proc 37th IUPS, PCC031
Poster Communications: Computational model of cardiovascular dynamics for assessment of cardiac energetic efficiency
T. Shimayoshi1, Y. Himeno2, A. Amano2, T. Matsuda1, A. Noma2
1. Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. 2. Department of Bioinformatics, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu, Shiga, Japan.
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