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[Simulation study on the blood volume feedback control].

A Kong·J Bai·B Xi·P Zu·X Zhou
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To describe the relationship between blood volume and the cardiac function mathematically, a computer cardiovascular model, was developed including a systemic circulation, a heart and a pulmonary model and a blood volume feedback control. Simulation results indicate that the chronic heart failure could be compensated by increasing the blood volume to maintain the proper arterial pressure. Deterioration in heart failure causes an increase in blood volume, as well as increases in heart volume and cardiac energy consumption. These results are in agreement with the clinical data and results reported in the literature. The simulation also shows that for a predetermined ventricular contractility, an adequate increase in blood volume will increase the heart volume but decrease the cardiac energy consumption and lead the heart to work in an optimum condition.

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A Kong, J Bai, B Xi, P Zu, X Zhou. 1997. [Simulation study on the blood volume feedback control].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11539892/

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