Abdominal and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Modeling
Abstract
Modeling is a beneficial tool for understanding cardiovascular system functioning and pathophysiology of the system. The present study is concerned with left ventricle Pressure-Volume diagrams obtained by modeling of aortic aneurysms using the cardiovascular electronic system. In addition, these graphs were compared with a normal condition. The electrical circuit of the cardiovascular system consists of 42 segments including the main arterial vessels. Anatomical and physiological data for circuit parameters have been extracted from medical articles and textbooks. The pressure-volume graphs were obtained for fusiform and saccular aortic aneurysms at different values by using Matlab software. The results show that hypertension is a major symptom of these diseases. By increasing in amount of aneurysm, the blood pressure increases considerably, moreover, the amount of stroke work could be obtained from the graphs. Also, the diagrams show that the amount of cardiac function in every severity of the diseases.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2008.1052.1058
Copyright: © 2008 Mona Abdolrazaghi, Mehdi NavidBakhsh and Kamran Hassani. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Cardiovascular system
- Pressure-Volume Loops
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm (TAA)