A mathematical approach to cardiovascular disease : mechanics of blood circulation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karakawa, Masanori
Other Authors: Igarashi, Katsurō
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Kokuseido Pub. Co., [1998]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Basic formulae of hemodynamics
  • One-circulation system model
  • Two-circulation system model
  • Dynamics of an intermittent pump and elastic pipe model
  • Basic formulae
  • Phenomena during one heart beat
  • Dynamics of blood pressure (arterial pressure)
  • Biological factors and physical factors
  • How is mean blood pressure determined?
  • How are maximum blood pressure and minimum blood pressure determined
  • Dynamics of venous pressure - how is venous pressure determined?
  • The role of capillary vessels in the determination of venous pressure
  • Dynamics of the total circulatory system by taking venous pressure into consideration
  • Blood volume and mean circulatory filling pressure
  • Dynamics of congestive heart failure
  • What is congestive heart failure?
  • Balance between blood volume and energy output
  • Balance between systemic and pulmonary circulatory systems
  • Congestion in the systemic circulation is not right ventricular failure
  • Dynamics of right ventricular myocardial infarction
  • Dynamics of the pulmonary circulation
  • Special characteristics of the pulmonary circulation and Poiseuille's Law
  • Dynamics of hard tubes and soft tubes
  • How is blood flow in the pulmonary circulation determined?
  • Harmony between the systemic circulation and the pulmonary circulation
  • What is cor pulmonale?
  • Dynamics of acute cor pulmonale
  • Dynamics of heart-failure lung
  • Dynamics of valvular stenoses
  • What is stenotic resistance?
  • Dynamics of aortic stenosis
  • Dynamics of pulmonary stenosis
  • Dynamics of mitral stenosis
  • Dynamics of valvular insufficiency
  • Dynamics of regurgitation
  • Dynamics of aortic insufficiency
  • Dynamics of mitral insufficiency
  • Tricuspid insufficiency
  • Distribution of blood flow in valvular insufficiency
  • Dynamics of cardiac anomalies
  • Dynamics of patent ductus arteriosus
  • Dynamics of septal defects
  • Dynamics of ventricular septal defect
  • Dynamics of atrial septal defect
  • Dynamics of the Eisenmenger Syndrome
  • Dynamics of shock and dynamics of the athletic heart
  • Dynamics of shock
  • Dynamics of the athletic heart
  • Dynamics of myocardial contraction as seen from the viewpoint of enzyme reactions
  • Enzyme reactions during myocardial contraction
  • The all-or-nothing law and the QT interval
  • How is chemical energy converted to dynamic energy?
  • Dynamics of the right ventricular bypass operation and the artificial heart
  • Dynamics of the Fontan operation
  • Dynamics of the artificial heart and the artificial lung.