DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS TO STUDY HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (HCM)

Authors
HAY A MIODUCHOWSKI A FAULKNER MG
Citation
A. Hay et al., DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS TO STUDY HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY (HCM), Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 17(3), 1993, pp. 435
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Engineering, Mechanical
Journal title
Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
03158977
Volume
17
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Database
ISI
SICI code
0315-8977(1993)17:3<435:DOAEAT>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
An experimental apparatus to model the systolic phase of a heartbeat h as been developed to investigate the controversy surrounding the cause of high intraventricular pressures for HCM patients. The model, which is two-dimensional, has approximately seven times the volume of an av erage human heart and operates at Reynolds numbers which are similar t o those measured in the left ventricle/aortic arch. Preliminary tests of the model show pressure time relationships similar to those found i n vivo.