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- Title
Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support Improves Myocardial Supply:Demand in Chronic Heart Failure.
- Authors
Soucy, Kevin; Bartoli, Carlo; Phillips, Dustin; Giridharan, Guruprasad; Sobieski, Michael; Wead, William; Dowling, Robert; Wu, Zhongjun; Prabhu, Sumanth; Slaughter, Mark; Koenig, Steven
- Abstract
Continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices (CF LVADs) are rotary blood pumps that improve mean blood flow, but with potential limitations of non-physiological ventricular volume unloading and diminished vascular pulsatility. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that left ventricular unloading with increasing CF LVAD flow increases myocardial flow normalized to left ventricular work. Healthy ( n = 8) and chronic ischemic heart failure (IHF, n = 7) calves were implanted with CF LVADs. Acute hemodynamics and regional myocardial blood flow were measured during baseline (LVAD off, clamped), partial (2-4 L/min) and full (>4 L/min) LVAD support. IHF calves demonstrated greater reduction of cardiac energy demand with increasing LVAD support compared to healthy calves, as calculated by rate-pressure product. Coronary artery flows ( p < 0.05) and myocardial blood flow (left ventricle (LV) epicardium and myocardium, p < 0.05) decreased with increasing LVAD support in normal calves. In the IHF model, blood flow to the septum, LV, LV epicardium, and LV myocardium increased significantly with increasing LVAD support when normalized to cardiac energy demand ( p < 0.05). In conclusion, myocardial blood flow relative to cardiac demand significantly increased in IHF calves, thereby demonstrating that CF LVAD unloading effectively improves cardiac supply and demand ratio in the setting of ischemic heart failure.
- Subjects
HEART failure risk factors; LEFT heart ventricle; HEART blood-vessels; CORONARY circulation; MECHANICAL properties of the heart
- Publication
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 6, p1475
- ISSN
0090-6964
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10439-017-1804-x