Cardiac cycle

About: Cardiac cycle is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3290 publications have been published within this topic receiving 96159 citations.

Physical and physiological determinants of pulmonary venous flow: numerical analysis

Abstract: To study the physical and physiological determinants of transmitral and pulmonary venous flow, a lumped-parameter model of the cardiovascular system has been created, modeling the instantaneous pressure, volume, and influx/efflux of the pulmonary veins, left atrium and ventricle, systemic arteries and veins. right atrium and ventricle, and pulmonary arteries. Initial validation has been obtained by direct comparison with transesophageal echocardiographic recordings of mitral and pulmonary venous velocity for the following clinical situations: normal diastolic function, delayed ventricular relaxation, restrictive filling due to severe systolic dysfunction, severe mitral regurgitation before and after valve repair surgery, and premature atrial contraction occurring during ventricular systole. Sensitivity analysis has been performed with a Jacobian matrix, representing the proportional change in a group of output indexes (yi) in response to isolated changes in input parameters (xj), [(delta yi/yi)/ ([delta xj/xj)], demonstrating the complementary nature of mitral and pulmonary venous A-wave velocity for predicting ventricular stiffness and atrial systolic function. This unified numerical-experimental programming environment should facilitate model refinement and physiological data exploration, in particular guiding more accurate interpretations of Doppler echocardiographic data.

Detection of left atrial myxoma by gated radionuclide cardiac imaging.

Abstract: Gated radionuclide cardiac blood pool scans (GCS) of end-systole and end-diastole or eight images subtending the entire cardiac cycle were performed on seven patients with left atrial myxomas documented by pulmonary cineangiography with left atrial follow-through. The ethocardiogram was either suggestive or diagnostic in all patients. In addition to demonstration of the tumor (6 patients), the GCS detected three patterns of tumor motion: 1) a defect which moved from the left atrium in end systole to the left ventricle in end diastole (2 patients); 2) a defect which remained within the region of the left atrium but decreased in size between end diastole and end systole (3); and 3) a defect which was observed within the region of the left ventricle in end diastole but disappeared in end systole (1). Thus, the GCS is a noninvasive method for detection and evaluation of motion of left atrial myxomas.

Effect of excitement on coronary and systemic energetics in unanesthetized dogs

Abstract: The effect of excitement on phasic aortic pressure and flow, phasic left coronary flow, and myocardial metabolism has been studied in dogs 1–8 weeks after implantation of appropriate flowmeters and other devices. The rapid increase in heart rate and mild increase in blood pressure in the first few seconds tend to maintain coronary flow per minute despite a decrease in stroke cardiac output and coronary flow throughout the cardiac cycle. The main response is a delayed rise in coronary flow per minute resulting from further elevation of heart rate and blood pressure, a moderate increase in stroke cardiac output and a sizeable increase in stroke coronary flow, the latter being divided fairly evenly between systole and diastole. From 60 to 90% of the increase in mean coronary flow arises from the increase in stroke coronary flow, and the remainder from the increased number of heartbeats per minute. Some of the possible mechanisms concerned are discussed.

Heart assist method and device

Abstract: A heart assist device is controlled in a normal mode of operation to counterpulsate with the heart and produce a blood flow waveform corresponding to the flow waveform of the heart being assisted. A blood pump in the device is connected serially between the discharge of a heart ventricle and the vascular system, and during the normal mode of operation, the pump is operated to maintain a programmed pressure at the ventricle discharge during systolic cardiac pulsation. A pressure transducer detects the pressure at the ventricle discharge and a hydraulically powered, closed-loop servomechanism controls the displacement of a piston in an expansible chamber receiving the blood from the ventricle, in such a way that programmed pressure is maintained in the chamber. Means are provided for recording the piston displacement as a function of time during ventricular systole. During diastole, the piston motion is reversed, and servo-controlled to duplicate the recorded displacement waveform while the piston contracts the chamber volume and expels blood into the vascular system. In this way the output blood from waveform produced by the pump during diastole is the same as the output flow waveform produced by the ventricle during the previous systole. In the event that the heart beat stops or becomes severely arrhythmic, the device switches to an autonomous mode of operation and a waveform generator in the pump controls provides an ideal blood flow waveform independent of cardiac pulsations.